(10.Januar) The policy assumptions in Delhi that Sri Lanka could be incrementally entrapped in a ring of cultural nationalism and political bonhomie, making Colombo eventually a satellite within Indian orbit completely overlooked the mainsprings of Sinhala nationalism – culturally, historically and politically. Our Hindutva folks schooled in Chanakya and unaware of contemporary history and politics got their sums hopelessly wrong. An insightful op-Ed in the Hindu last week ended with this cry in the wilderness: