The author is a classic case of 'those want to hurt Modi are hurting India'.

If Sushant Singh gets an opportunity to paint Modi an evil force ( for no logical reasons), he won't mind sing pious to China regardless of how damaging it can be for Indian national interests.

Sushant Singh's Ladakh reporting was full of misinformation & misjudgement. Rarely he had first hand info but only assumption based on 2nd or 3rd hand knowledge about ground realities on LAC during Indo-Sino standoff.

Quad is direction-less, Quad is agenda-less, Quad is leader-less, Quad is purposeless, Quad is ASEAN-less - these are just wishful thinking & just insinuations.

Although, I do not believe that he's not aware of realities of Quad, the stand of New Delhi & Canberra precisely, the ability of Modi & Morrison to steer it in the right direction, the potential of Indo-Aus combine force to resist Biden's exaggerated efforts, so on & so forth.

But that's not the problem, the problem is "Modi".

Any damn idiotic layman can even understand that this is what any Indian PM has to do wrt Quad with insignificant change in the degree of efforts, but since Modi is doing these is a problem.