That India had to warm up to the West is an idea that had been brewing since Indira Gandhi’s return in 1980. Singh’s success lay in making the same shift much more decisively at the head of a Congress government. It was also audacious, in my book even more so than the 1991 reform, given how little support this had within his party and among the UPA partners. Watch this week's National Interest with ThePrint Editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta.----more----Read this week's National Interest here: https://theprint.in/national-interest/manmohan-singh-has-a-legacy-beyond-1991-nuclear-deal-with-us-shows-his-strategic-vision/2422496/