“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
- Sun Tzu, Chinese military general [...]
Will India talk to Pakistan and have a meaningful dialogue to resolve long-standing disputes between the two countries? The question is vital for the peaceful co-existence of nuclear armed neighbors and for the future strategic geo-political posturing that involves American-Chinese relations. The new world global order is going to be shaped in the political landscape [...]
In this columnist’s article (“Will Pakistan Nuke India,” The Nation, Feb.14, 2010) the question was raised (as expressed and shared by many Indians) “Will Pakistan survive – even for the next five years?”
Who has not heard the story of the shepherd who regularly yelled “Sher- Aya- Sher!” (here comes the beast- the lion) to terrorize [...]
Anu Radha, is a 27-year old urban middle class Indian: In all probability he has never met a Pakistani and, like the rest of his contemporary generation of Indians, he is fully exposed to media and television broadcasting 24 hours-a-day 365 days-a-year. No wonder Anu’s political-moral- social consciousness and global views are influenced by what [...]
It was Mahatma Gandhi who once said, “Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.” Centuries before Gandhi, the Roman poet Virgil had stated: “Anger carries the mind away.” Pietro Aretino, the 15th century Italian author, categorically defined “anger” as an anti-intellect human emotion: “Angry men are blind and foolish…” Aretino declared. Modern social-psychology [...]
