Is not picking a side also counted as taking a stand? Diplomatic mandarins in New Delhi certainly think so. That’s why they have goaded Prime Minister Narendra Modi to say nothing more than call for “de-escalation, dialogue and diplomacy" after U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to step into the Israel-Iran war.

Beyond the ionic column-lined corridors of their fief in Raisina Hill, the government’s foreign policy wonks are having a terrible time convincing India’s irate Opposition that India’s neutrality is not a moral compromise. That in the........

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