Beware the Ends of June
Chairman Emeritus, Delhi Policy Group and former Ambassador to Pakistan, China and USA, and Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs Brexit, NSG, the Emergency: three unrelated events combining over that last June weekend, in one imperative lesson: put your house in order. Brexit shows the great, sudden ways of change in the world, and their effects on us; Seoul/Tashkent underlines how tough it is to secure our international interests, especially in face of China's power and purposes; above all, the June 25, 1975 Emergency, and how easily it was imposed, warns us of our internal vulnera bilities. Typifying our refusal to learn, it illustrates 2 particularly pernicious defects, since greatly expanded; the primacy of personal factors in decision - making, and the subjection of instruments of state to those in power.