Mehta, Pratap Bhanu creator text xu| 2003 continuing ng p.2014-017. In the final analysis we need a political culture in both India and Pakistan that understands that sometimes nationalism is the enemy of the national interest; we need a political culture that is prepared to pay a short-run price for imagining a new architecture for the subcontinent; and we need a political culture that will allow both countries to transcend the sediments of history that are weighing them down. Unless all this changes we will remain trapped in current paradigms and assumptions which are such that only one side can claim victory, even as both have the power to destroy each other. - Reproduced. India - Foreign relations - Pakistan International relations Economic and Political Weekly 180718