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    278: New Neighbourliness in India-Sri Lanka Ties

    P S Suryanarayana, Editor (Current Affairs), ISAS

    20 March 2015

    In Sri Lanka, the latest country that India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited in his frenetic foreign-policy forays, he has implicitly addressed the issue of China's influence over the island-republic, besides explicitly assuring its leaders of New Delhi's support for their efforts at national reconciliation. Tracing a trail of Indo-Lankan civilisation-ties, Modi has also invited Sri Lanka to utilise a satellite that India would be launching into space for the benefit of South Asia.