All that posed a considerable challenge, which the Government was committed to meeting.

Isar Kaka, you'll face him. Goli, give Kachra the ball. Lakha, go back.

I faced up to it very early on. Long before I was an old wreck.

With our own eyes we have seen the huge tectonic plate of the cold war, with its intense confrontation between two super Powers and two ideologies, sink into the past.