Last rites

The latest development, involving as it does its newest member Afghanistan which joined in 2007, perhaps underlines the fact that it may be time for the last rites to be performed for an association which while theoretically sensible was never going to achieve any traction because of sub-continental tensions. New Delhi’s calculation that it was better to have the camel in the tent spraying out has gone awry because the camel in this case, to stretch the metaphor, is doing its business within the confines of the tent. (Read More)