Calcutta Diary

Forget Kargil, forget even Jammu and Baramula. The menace of militancy so-described is casting a shadow over the entire north-east, Assam not ecluding. Assigning the credit for the disturbed state of affairs to over-activism on the part of Pakistan's ISI is laziness par excellence: the real danger lies in the possibility that we might actually come to half-believe some of the fictions we make up.