Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Thailand later this week for the sixth summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (Bimstec), which will be held on April 4. He will then visit Sri Lanka on the return journey. This is a seven-nation group, five from South Asia and two from Southeast Asia. The last summit was in 2022, in a post-Covid world. The group hived off five members from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc), an organisation that has got stymied due to India-Pakistan differences, especially over Pakistani abetment of anti-India...