The article identifies the challenges to India emerging from the evolving political and internal security situation in Myanmar and delves into the history of India-Myanmar bilateral ties to explain and analyse the diplomatic balancing strategy India has adopted over the years to maintain its relationship with the powerful Junta while maintaining its moral support for forces fighting for restoration......

Myanmar is badly in need of a process of reconciliation that would involve all the stakeholders including the powerful military and all the ethnic groups and evolve a new social contract enabling and empowering them all. This would also ensure the upliftment of sanctions and facilitate the flow of funds and humanitarian aid to the country and offer Myanmar an opportunity to reinvent itself.