"You can't have a saree-shawl diplomacy one day, artillery diplomacy next, then ignoring each other in Kathmandu the third day. Calling talks in Delhi and then cancelling them, then having talks in Bangkok, then meeting in Ufah and issuing a circular," Tharoor said. "On foreign policy there always was much more consensus in the past. The nature of that consensus was that we have our political difference but they stop at the waters edge. On most foreign policy issues we try to have a united front.

Source: Economic Times January 29, 2018 12:56 UTC