1.10. Vision and Reality

♤ As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in January 2007, he dreamt of a day when “while retaining our respective national identities, one can have breakfast in Amritsar, lunch in Lahore and dinner in Kabul. That is how my forefathers lived. That is how I want my grandchildren to live.”

♤ According to TCA Raghavan: from 2008 till the present day “enough has changed to make sure older solutions will not work.” Nonetheless, “the cyclical pattern” of reconciliatory moves and hawkish standoffs will go on.