Prof. A.C. Bose

New opportunities and new challenges The American invasion of land-locked Afghanistan, from across half the world in many ways.

Never were so many eyes focussed on so small a corner of the world, never were so many assumptions belied, and never were so many political fortune-tellers proved wrong.

Partly since the 11th of September and almost wholly since the 7th of October Afghanistan has stolen the head-lines of the newspapers of the world.

Every one is discussing and forecasting what is happening and is going to happen with Afghanistan and the states actively concerned with developments there.

First, the forecasters told us that the poor primitive Afghans would simply cower and cringe at the sight of the sole super-power leading a grand coalition of the might and the rich.

Report from London By Gwynne Dyer The Age of Innocence Nobody under the age of thirty would write the kind of drivel that has been filling newspapers in the English-speaking world since the death of George Harrison.

Take the Globe and Mail of Toronto, where I was when he died: "Central to (Beatlemania) was the profound sense of cheeky, benign optimism, long distant from the cynical, frightened age in which we now live...(But people) were not shocked yesterday in the way they were by John Lennons murder in 1980, a defining moment in the erosion of the age of innocence." About us | Advertisers | Other Publications | Subscriptions | Advertising Weather | Letters | Search | Suggestions | Send Mail | Vaishnodevi ________________________________________________________ (c) 1998, The Kashmir Times Press Pvt.

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