With increasing talk of enhancing bilateral, trilateral and regional trade, and connectivity between India and its neighbours, the future is now a matter of urgent understanding and cooperation. It is also time to revisit some old and eminently workable regional frameworks and approaches that were jettisoned on account of South Asian politics. These need to be married to new ideas and proposals whose time has come. Taken together, all of it needs to be knitted within the South Asian realpolitik in general and the increasingly productive realpolitik of Eastern South Asia — a region that includes Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and its several eastern and northeastern states, and has ambitious China to the north and fractious Myanmar to east. The Great Game that has for long hobbled the region needs to now be transformed to a Great Goal. The talk will discuss the prospects and problems of this journey for shared peace and prosperity.