Sri Lanka, July 9 -- The 'structural imbalance' in South Asia is a contribution of geography and political history - but also has a deeper context and meaning.

News reports that Sri Lanka's 'pleas for debt-freeze hangs fire' in New Delhi months afterwards should be a cause for strategic concern for India, over the short, medium and long terms. Other reports mention that "with India yet to respond to the debt-freeze request, Sri Lanka turns to China" - should make India's hidden strategic concerns more immediate than in the past.

As coincidence would have it, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has reopened reference to his mentioning Indian agencies working with their Western counterparts for regime change in his country. Unlike...