Corruption does no one any favors. After long pretending that graft was a necessary evil -or just plain necessary- governments rich and poor are trying to stamp it out.

Since independence India's nuclear policy has been to seek either global disarmament or equal security for all. The old nonproliferation regime was discriminatory ratifying the possession of nuclear weapons for the permanent five members of the U.N. Security Council while preaching to the nuclear have-nots about the virtues of disarmament. India was left sandwiched between two nuclear weapons powers Pakistan a rising China.