Dr. Arun Swamy
is a research program fellow at the East-West Center, an organization that promotes better relations and understanding among the people and nations of the United States, Asia, and the Pacific through cooperative study, research, and dialogue.
Powell’s failure to obtain any assurances of further concessions by either side cannot therefore said to be a disappointment.
As Indian opposition leaders have charged, it was part of a broader tendency toward eliminating civil liberties and scapegoating cultural minorities in an aggressive effort to impose a unified sense of nationhood on one of the world’s most culturally dive
The United States has an unprecedented opportunity today to play a constructive role in resolving South Asias chronic and expensive rivalry.