Recently I attended a lecture by Kishore Mahabubani, the Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore where he posed a question: Can India be Cunning?

He argued why India has to junk the remnants of a moralistic foreign policy and employ means that may not seem ethical. He said that as long as ends justify the means, a country shouldn’t be too caught up on morals.