A good case can be made for India to jettison its allergy toward One Belt Road One Road and instead seriously apply itself to developing the so-called K2K route (Kunming-Ruili-Bhamo-Lashio-Mandalay-Tamu-Imphal-Sylhet-Dhaka-Kolkata). In fact, the most appropriate ‘outreach’ at the forthcoming BRICS summit in Goa – aside SAARC, of course – would have been the BCIM forum (Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar). But then, we probably settled for the pompous-sounding BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation), which is an insipid forum, because that is the only conceivable way to keep out China and Pakistan.