New Delhi, May 5 (Reporter) External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Sunday said that India’s neighbours also “have their own politics” and New Delhi has to manage it and take relations forward. Answering a question, during an interaction in Cuttack, on India’s neighbours, including Nepal issuing a currency note with a map including some disputed territories, despite India providing help when needed, he said: “Neighbours, they too have their own politics – sometimes we have to manage this. But please don’t think that our neighbours don’t have positive intentions towards India, they do. “If you go to Sri Lanka, there will be instances, or of someone saying something (adverse), but overall if you see, today our image …. We helped our neighbours during Covid, during the Ukraine war when people were not getting petrol and foodgrain shipments had stopped, we provided foodgrains. “Today too, if you see, even a small thing, like onion exports, if neighbours feel they need more due to a shortfall, they request us for more apart from the onion quota. So it is in our interest to maintain good relations and it is in their interest too to keep the relations positive, and they benefit from it too. “In between there are incidences like this (referring to the Nepal incident). I do not disagree. But in diplomacy we have to manage all this, like in business too, we have to manage it and take it forward. And that is what we do, and in the end we do succeed.” On India’s image and on the issue of secularism, the EAM said: “Secularism – let’s be clear what we mean by it. Secularism means respect for all religions, it does not mean that you deny your own religion, or that you are not somehow proud of your own culture and heritage. Today’s Bharat, there are history, culture, traditions, these are facts of life. If something was there 3,000 years ago, it was a reality. So we should not be defensive about many of these things,” in oblique reference to the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. “So I would respect all religions; but obviously like as an individual I will have pride in mine, and as a state I will be acting in a way that I take cognisance of all. But I do not in any way have to play down my own identity in that respect, and I think we get respect for it outside,” he added...////...