Ramaswami: The foreign secretary was dispatched to Kabul to declare India’s support for the beleaguered government – a symbolic act without substance. With Pakistan back in the driving seat in Afghan affairs, India is now landed with an unenviable situation of having to face a recrudescence of Islamist extremism in the region. That this is happening under the deep strategic embrace of the United States is a telling commentary on the utility of the much vaunted Indo-US strategic partnership. (March 4, 2020)