As Burma’s top leader, General Than Shwe, pays a five-day state visit to India, the BBC’s Hindi Service editor Amit Baruah asks what reaction the military ruler can expect from the world’s largest democracy.
Silence. And the absence of disapproval.
That is what Burma’s Gen Than Shwe will be looking for from Delhi, after touching down in the Buddhist pilgrimage town of Bodh Gaya on Sunday morning.
And he will get it.