I wish to than Mr. Srinivasan for such an informative article. I only wish that someone in the corriders of power will have as much common sense as the common man on the streets to extricate INDIA out of such a mess. In retrospect it looks like blundering indian diplomats and strategists got it all wrong this time. It is a common image of indians shooting their mouths off (me included) but sometimes it is better to sometime think over a problem and try to wriggle out of difficult positions. We can only hope that our external affairs minister and the babus will learn something out of this and, instead of ostrich like approach, will take on this problem head on.