There was a time when Indian diplomats at the United Nations took toilet breaks to avoid voting on key resolutions because their governments didn’t want to take a stand on critical issues. Today, our foreign policy has become rather more sophisticated: we “take the middle ground”, as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did in his speech at the NAM summit in Teheran. That’s diplomatic speak for a ‘policy of not having a policy’ on issues – or of speaking out of both sides of the mouth.