Boundaries are manifestations of national identity. They can be trip-wires of war. Like most boundary disputes, those of India with its neighbors are symptomatic of wider bilateral relations. Recent developments in South Asia suggest that peaceful resolution of these disputes in receding from reach. The nuclearisation of India and Pakistan has increased tension in the region and threatens to inflame long-standing boundary disputes that India has with China, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh. The disputes with China and Pakistan have already triggered several wars. Although the boundary disputes with Nepal and Bangladesh are recent and involve small areas, but if they are not addressed quickly and fairly, they will reach an irreparable point. In the light of three nuclear powers involved in the disputes, in its high time to settle them at the earliest.