Agri impetus

Mumbai

All about might

• This refers to Inder Malhotra’s article, ‘On history’s plateau’. China has never accepted Tibet’s claims to sovereignty. The term ‘sovereignty’ has had several connotations in the past. But now, it is defined in terms of a state either ‘having it’ or ‘not having it’. The erstwhile Soviet Union dominated a dozen nations for more than half a century, and few could protest then. What, for that matter, is being done for Iraq reeling under the boots of Western armies? India itself has not come clean in the case of Sikkim — which was never an Indian province but now is an Indian state. The fact is that the strong rule the weak, regardless of place and time.

— Naval Langa

Ahmedabad