India is losing interest in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization

Brahma Chellaney is professor emeritus of strategic studies at the Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi and a former adviser to India's National Security Council. He is the author of nine books, including "Water: Asia's New Battleground."

India appears to be having second thoughts about its involvement in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as the group's anti-Western orientation is increasingly at odds with the subtle pro-Western tilt of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's foreign policy.