Security Code: ’India, Sri Lanka paid heavy price for Katchatheevu claims, tiny island not worth obsessing over’

'Ever since independence, Indian policy on its maritime border with Sri Lanka has been driven by the need to protect the interests of ethnic Tamils in that country, and keep foreign powers out of the Indian Ocean. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s use of Katchatheevu island as an election-time tool threatens to undermine India’s bigger strategic objectives', says Contributing Editor Praveen Swami in #ThePrint #SecurityCode