Dibyendu's WallScript

A draft treaty on nuclear disarmament was tabled recently in Geneva. However, with India and 61 other participating countries unable to reach consensus, the session was adjourned. The initial plan had been to finalize the treaty by 28 June, but India’s representative, Arundhati Ghose, made it clear that New Delhi had serious reservations about the neutrality of the present draft. Until those doubts are addressed, India will not sign the agreement. As a result, implementation remains stalled, and questions loom over the treaty’s viability. Diplomats are now pushing for a fresh round of talks on 29 July, though prospects for success remain uncertain.   The debate raises a series of difficult questions about the credibility of the P-5 nuclear powers (United States, Russia, China, Britain, France) and their ambiguous dual role.   Doubts Over the P-5 Motives   First, there is widespread suspicion about the selective approach of the nuclear powers. Nations like India or Israel,...

It was always known— he would return by this road, some other day, for there is no other road to return upon.   Dasharath walked that way, past the familiar tea-stall of Madhur, turning left into the lane that led to Mamon’s house.   Upon his shoulder rested a sack of rice, saved from the month’s expenses, so little— yet perhaps of use if Mamon should be in need.   Before her house lay the yellow field. This year the harvest had failed to prosper— the rain was erratic, and the farmer’s fate, more severe than ever.   At the edge of that field fear seized him— the market of buying and selling, creditors, brokers, spies, all sat waiting, ready to seize what was not theirs.   With fear he passed, beneath the burning sun; his skin was scorched, yet in his skeletal frame the courage of the heart endured.   So much had been declared— that everything would change when the government of equality arrived. But nothing had changed, and nothing ever would.   Yet mu...