A recent article described Pakistan as a decrepit state attached to a bedraggled army.Now it never really possessed the essentials of a state, unless you consider the trappingsof a faith as fitting the bill.This was not true about India, even though Nehru's Sovietreligion did bring us to the brink. We are there again, what with mindless spending on armaments, the Punjabi need forstripes on their shoulders, and the new disease that is tearing into our guts and severely testing the beloved voodoo precepts of my people. Longer shadows and darker evenings of my northern home approach with autumn. But therewill be room for holiday season lights.
