Summitry can serve many ends, especially when crowd cover becomes useful to signal a policy shift. The SCO gathering in Kyrgyzstan was one such. It gave India an opportunity to register opposition to the US-Israel war on Iran in the company of others.
Did it constitute course correction, or was it the usual playing of all sides to minimise damage? Was it heartfelt to the extent anything can be in politics? Or was geopolitics forcing Delhi to create certain optics and imagery?
