They expel our diplomats, we expel their's on the same old grounds of suspected espionage.
But could it have been any different? Certainly not. We tried our luck with a civilian, democratically elected government in Pakistan to push the peace process forward and try to engage ourselves, but the process got highjacked midway by the Pakistani military.
Again, thinking very naively though(how else could we?), we hedged our bets with the military leader President Musharraf. See the consequences! Ups and downs----big talk from the media savvy general about naya dil and dil-dukh etc., which unfortunately could not be carried forward by India. To carry the process forward would be ignoring ground realities, as the needle of suspicion of the roots of terror within India are still unswervingly pointed toward Pakistan.
It is very difficult for a country, whose society is still feudal, where permanent democracy is still a pipe dream, where fundamentalism stalks even the mighty military generals to accept the cutting up of their nation way back in 1971 with Indian help.
Sadly, track two diplomacy notwithstanding, this psyche persists.
