Warm but awaiting new direction
India’s relations with the UK are deep and friendly. But the much expected impetus to closer ties will have to wait till clarity emerges on London’s divorce with Brussels. The rhetoric remains as warm as ever. But the visit of British Prime Minister Theresa May to India in early November, her first official visit as British leader outside Europe, did little to take the relationship forward from an apparent post-Brexit pause that has puzzled most analysts and foreign policy experts. [...]