The wait for a messiah by Irfan Husain
24 July, 2010
Older readers will recognise this mantra from the past: “South Korea stole our first Five-Year Plan.” According to this urban legend, when a Korean was accused of this petty larceny by a Pakistani, he retorted: “Yes, but we implemented it.” The other pat on the back we give ourselves is about how PIA helped establish [...]
The peace chimera by Cyril Almeida
23 July, 2010The hawks on both sides have won, again. At some point the minutiae becomes irrelevant. Did Pillai sink the talks between Krishna and Qureshi by blaming the ISI for the Mumbai attacks a day before the foreign ministers were to meet? Did Krishna’s inflexibility during the talks and the joint press conference with Qureshi torpedo [...]
Hate overtakes tolerance by Kuldip Nayar
23 July, 2010THE escalating violence in India frightens me. Still more frightening is the shape it is taking. It has turned communal, regional and ideological in various places. Whatever its direction, it indicates a trend where the rule of law is lessening and force is gaining recognition. I had imagined that political parties would not stoke fires [...]
Back to the people by I.A. Rehman
22 July, 2010The goodwill laboriously built up on the eve of the Indian foreign minister’s visit to Pakistan has gone up in smoke. Honeyed homilies have been lost in a trail of acrimonious utterances. The losers again are the luckless people of the two countries. Advocates of conspiracy theories have received grist for their mills in the [...]
India’s Ozymandias syndrome by Jawed Naqvi
22 July, 2010“…We are both Indian and we belong to a very mature democracy. We are proud of that. We look at transacting relations with our neighbours in a very mature and balanced way. “And that is the approach that India brings to these talks. I do not want to comment or pontificate on Pakistan’s attitude. That [...]
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