With the onset of summer, the dreariest part of the year has begun in northern India. In Lutyens Delhi, home to the woolly-headed bunch currently plotting Indias imminent superpowerdom, the warm weather also signals the arrival of the silly season.
Once again, the focus is on that abiding Indian obsession: Pakistan. Once again, there is talk of peace with Pakistan, “breakthroughs", “changing mindsets", “tectonic shifts in mentality", “seizing opportunities", ignoring the “conservatives” and “hawks".
Once again, there is talk of “sacrifice": In this case of Siachen.
There is a pattern to this. It begins with a creeping collusion between notionally representative sections of the Government and the completely non-representative media. On television chat shows, Indians talk emptily of how the world is being transformed and Pakistani strategic termagants insist India should move its troops to the “barracks” and negotiate with the “freedom fighters".
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