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ST-1 (Text Summary / Text Completion)
Directions: Five alternative summaries are given below the text. Choose the option that best completes the essence of the text.
India and America are not always likely to share strategic interests. Nevertheless, we must remain friends in the sense of a higher commitment to certain values. Alliances based on interests are but transient. We should support America if it seeks to export the ideal of genuine liberal democracy around the world and warn it of the fate which befell earlier hegemons that chose to pursue narrow selfish interests. This position, as their friend in freedom, is what we owe them. Frankness, in other words, must be the primary virtue of our often strained, but nevertheless true friendship.
The passage is concerned with the fact that friendship does not mean that the interests would be common, but ideologies do match. The idea has been expressed only in option (3). Options (2), (4) and (5) are contradicted in the passage as the only motive for friendship is values.