Modi on a hot tin Lankan roof

March 07, 2015 13:01

The transcript of the interview given by the Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe to a TV channel in the southern state of Tamil Nadu makes very painful reading.

Ranil's interview has appeared when External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj is actually visiting Colombo to prepare the visit by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which is reportedly slated to take place later this month.

To put it mildly, Ranil's interview is not exactly the kind of curtain-raiser for Modi's visit that Delhi or the Bharatiya Janata Party's foreign-affairs whizz kids would have expected.

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