"India?s constructive engagement with Myanmar has reached a new intensity with its hosting of Senior. General Than Shwe for five days at the end of July. Delhi?s strong imperatives on counter-terror cooperation, border management, resource security, and overland transit routes mean there is no incentive at all for Delhi to elevate ideology above national interest in its policy towards Myanmar. India?s decision to embrace Myanmar?s Senior General Than Shwe — recently dubbed as one of the world?s worst dictators by Washington?s "Foreign Policy" magazine — has drawn much criticism from the West. In hosting Gen. Than Shwe for a five-day visit at the end of July, India would seem to have drifted a bit too far even by its new standards of realpolitik..."