The Tantrums Which Will Follow Explosions

The Pioneer - June 5, 1998 - by Arun Shourie: "Asia's Deadly Triangle by Kent Calder, for long the Director of the programme on US-Japan Relations at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and later Senior Advisor for East Asian and Pacific Affairs to the U S State Department.

The four principles of secularist-liberal-nostalgically, Maoist-nostalgically Lahorite discourse:

1. India is, it has always been, it will always be One hundred per cent wrong, with no one to blame but itself;

2. India led by BJP is, it has always been, it will always be Two hundred per cent wrong, with no one to blame but the BJP;

3. Pakistan is, it has always been, it will always be One hundred per cent right, with no one to blame but India;

4. Pakistan backed by China is, it has always been, it will always be Two hundred per cent right, with, not one, but two to blame - India and BJP!"