India's Look East Policy: A Critical Assessment

This paper discusses relationship between India and other multilateral organisations formed since Independence. India intends to forge general cooperation on various aspects such as environmental, economic development, security and strategic affairs. 'The emergence of India's Look East Policy at the time when India's economy suffered a huge setback, India took significant move to forge deeper economic integration with its eastern neighbours as a part of new realpolitik in evidence in India's foreign policy, and the engagement with Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is the recognition on the part of India's economic importance of the region to serve the country's national interests. This paper examines how LPG model changed the economic health of India.