From The Hindu, a review of The Clash Within: Democracy, Religious Violence, and India’s Future by Martha C. Nussbaum. Viewing India’s down and out: Slum tourism is a way for travelers to taste the exotica of squalor. Recalling the “liberation” of Goa: Looking back, some of the reactions to the “invasion” of Goa, both Indian and Western, are amusing and bewildering. A review of The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain by Nicholas B. Dirks. The siege of the Red Mosque, which religious parties say killed over a thousand people, drove a wedge between moderate and militant Islam that could be fatal for the Musharraf presidency. Pakistan on the Brink: Six years after the September 11 attacks, the Bush administration encourages more strife in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pervez Musharraf is wobbling, and his political adversaries are moving in for the kill. But Pakistan’s former leaders are hardly the democratic saviors they present themselves to be. Finger on the trigger: If Pakistan falls, Jihadis will have the bomb.
