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India needs a stable coalition that can pursue reforms and is tolerant towards minorities, says Meghnad Desai

So the war is over and it was won, albeit at a large cost in human lives. It was a diplomatic triumph and despite the intelligence failure, the bravery and tenacity of the jawans, turned around what could have been a setback into a victory. No doubt much soul-searching will be done about what could have been done better. As in many other things the lower orders are fine and brave; it is as you climb up to the top and go from the military to the civil and political side that the stench begins to rise.

It is not the present government as such that I blame. Obviously a lot of the equipment that the jawans were fighting with was either obsolete or unworkable. Those MiGs are third rate, out of date planes which always crash. They we