Watch | Understanding 'India and Asian Geopolitics' with Shivshankar Menon The former NSA's book offers a sweeping survey of Indiaâs strategic history as part of the larger Asian geopolitical narrative. World3 hours ago Dr Happymon Jacob interviews Ambassador Shivshankar Menon (National Security Advisor to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh) on his new book â India and Asian Geopolitics. The book offers a sweeping survey of Indiaâs strategic history as part of the larger Asian geopolitical narrative. He provides an intellectually stimulating account of Indiaâs strategic situation and its sense of place in the world from Independence in 1947 to the present. He discusses the intellectual undercurrents of Indiaâs grand strategy in different periods â from Nehruvian non-alignment to Indira Gandhiâs realpolitik and Narasimha Raoâs continuity and change.