Is India gaining Influence in Sri Lanka?
February 22, 2022
Associate Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Gulbin Sultana’s commentary ‘Is India Gaining Influence in Sri Lanka?’ has been published by the Kalinga International Foundation on 22 February 2022.
At this critical juncture when Sri Lanka is seeking economic assistance as well as support at the 49th regular session of the UNHRC, it would not like to offend India. At the same time, Sri Lanka would not like to allow India to have an unfettered strategic influence in Sri Lanka due to the old perceived or misperceived fear of losing strategic autonomy despite receiving substantial economic assistance from the latter.
