With India clueless and dazed, its future in Afghanistan is getting grimmer with China, Pakistan, Russia and Iran on the same page, and its ally, the US, solely interested in getting out of there, at least as of now.
With an adverse international media coverage on mass human rights violations, the UN security council taking up Kashmir for the first time in 70 years, and the big powers openly meddling, despite the posturing, the Indian government is clearly on the defensive.
The Indian strategic community, ecstatic about growing ties with the US, should bear in mind that Washington is too involved with Beijing to give up its embrace of the dragon. The US does not see its relationship with India as a zero sum game