NEW DELHI, Aug. 28 -- In a telling statement, Sri Lanka's new foreign secretary Jayanath Colombage has said that Colombo will have an "India first" strategic policy outlook. Arguing that while the Rajapaksa government has adopted a posture of neutrality in its dealings with major regional and global powers, he was categorical in underlining that "the president [Gotabaya Rajapaksa] has stated that we have a strategic security-wise 'India first' policy because we cannot be, we should not be, we can't afford to be a strategic security threat for India, period." These are powerful words indeed, and along with Colombage's acknowledgement that the decision to give Hambantota port on a 99- year lease to China was a "mistake", it underscored the pitfalls of a rather infantile debate in this country about India's neighbourhood policy in recent months....