Editor's Note:
‘There is always war, man is wolf to man, a sad confirmation of things well known,’ said Primo Levi. The last century couldn’t prove it better. A century of the bloodiest wars and dehumanisation of man. Even as we discuss the issue in our pages, there are new tensions between India and Pakistan post the hijack of an Indian Airlines plane; inevitably, the two governments will exploit the situation to suit their own political agendas. In this chilling game, lives of soldiers and civilians once more, become dispensable; ‘honour’ offerings to ‘nationalism’. The nuclearisation of both our countries has not only made our lives more precarious, it is a blatant abnegation of responsibility to the welfare of the present and future citizens of the world. Yet, we endorse these schemes by apathy or design. If history has not taught us the basic rules of civilisation, we can only continue to be victims of our own follies. And frame a blueprint for another century of barbarism.

Bina Sarkar Ellias
Editor