"We Asians often look at each other through borrowed eyes, through tinted glasses and distorted mirrors. This must change," he said while releasing a book "The New Asia Power Dynamic" by former Indian Foreign Secretary M K Rasgotra here on Wednesday night.

Asian countries must learn to have an informed understanding of each other's concerns, Singh said adding the people in India must devote more time and resources in studying the strongest economies of Asia, China, Japan and South Korea, Singh said.

The prime minister said India's "Look East" policy, introduced in 1991, has contributed to a comprehensive re-engagement with South East and East Asia.

The rapid economic growth of China and India created new opportunities for expansion of trade and investment to their mutual advantages, he said and rejected suggestions that India was ganging up against China.

Singh said he had told the Chinese leadership that there was no question of ganging up against China as healthy ties between the two Asian giants was in the interest of both.

He said India and China were engaged in talks to solve the border problem and he did not have any instant solution to it.

Singh said India has revitalised Saarc as shown by the agenda and success of the Delhi summit in March this year. However, there is a need to realise the full potential of the regional grouping and civil societies must play its role in building mutual understanding, he added.

"We are generally more aware of what happens far away in distant shores than in the countries of our region," the Indian prime minister said.