Wednesday, June 2, 1999
Release Nachiketa
Pakistan's offer to send its Foreign Minister for talks is to be valued but, like most overtures in the history of Indo-Pak relations, it is not backed by any meaningful gesture.
Leave the forces alone
A controversy is the last thing the armed forces can afford at this juncture. This is yet another reason why the government should have taken care not to drag the forces into a needless controversy.
Winning without a war
There is a sombre sequence in Shekhar Kapur's Elizabeth when the newly anointed monarch has to deal with a French threat to undermine her already shaky kingdom. Her ministers advise her to go to war, and mock at her reluctance to do so. But Elizabeth has her reasons.
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