Nepal, March 25 -- No matter which party rules from New Delhi, India's basic foreign policy is generally consulted and coordinated with the main opposition

Just about the time India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi looked vulnerable, with his popularity rapidly declining, exchange of aerial strikes across the border with Pakistan seems to have reversed the slide. He looks like being back on the track in buoying the prospects of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the seven-phase general elections slated for April-May. At least that is what psephologists have been indicating one after another these past few weeks.

Kashmir has been a bone of contention since 1947 when India and Pakistan gained independence after Britain decided to shed its ...