Ruchir Joshi is a filmmaker and writer. He was born in Calcutta and now lives in Delhi. His novel The Last Jet-Engine Laugh (Flamingo, 2001) is set in a future India at war with a ‘Pak-Saudi’ alliance.

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The short Iraqi war offers a chilling prospect to Indians: the US can launch wars against medium-sized states whenever it wants. But if this renders national independence a fig leaf, it also challenges India to escape from the trap of a world ruled by violence.