Dawn, 30 December 2008
The insanity of war
EUROPE has seen two major wars: the First World War (1914-1918) and the Second World War (1939-1945).
There has never been a nuclear war in any western country but the mind-boggling devastation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima has sunk into the western consciousness. That is probably why westerners do not talk glibly of nuclear war.
We in South Asia have never witnessed such lengthy mass killings in modern history. That is probably why Indian and (...)