The United States-based International Council of Shopping Centres on Monday announced Indian operations to help develop the shopping centre industry here and promote research on this growing segment.
Times have changed, situations have changed, but the basic nature of superpower geo-politics remains the same and so also India's diplomacy -- call it non-alignment, strategic autonomy or neutrality; it all depends on the time scale, notes Rup Narayan Das.
'This offers us many opportunities to meet people in different ways, and we will do this with full respect to India.'