An arsenal of inanities
If the strategic stature of a country or region is determined by the quality of military and spy fiction written about it, we can complain of being very shoddily served. Read, for example, Dragon Fire, written by the BBC's former Beijing correspondent Humphrey Hawksley.



Time to go east
There are several reasons why India and Japan should want to work more closely together. Two of the most important just now are a common interest in furthering Asian strategic stability and in developing the potential of information technology for each of their economies.



Time to kill
There goes another popular myth. Contrary to widely held notions, it seems that the modern Indian is not exactly struggling to rescue life-saving titbits of precious personal time from choc-a-bloc work schedules.



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