It was the timing. On Buddha Purnima, India exploded three nuclear bombs. The era of the pseudo-secularists has actually arrived. Only a civilisation illiterate about itself would knit the bomb and Buddha together. Yet strangely, Buddha was the signifier of continuity for both nuclear events.
History repeats itself, first time as a tragedy and second time as illiteracy.
In fact, the first thing that went out of the window was the ideal of a civilisation with its notions of myth, religion, morals, good conduct and tradition. We abandoned it all for history and the Nation State. Welcome to the amoralism of the Patriot Games. The Patriot Games is played on a subtle chequer board. Let us state its moves.