India must strengthen ties with Vietnam

All history is a travelogue of time. "Main samay hoon" (I am time) was the famous opening line of Mahabharat, the TV serial that took the nation by storm in the late 1980s — the line encapsulated the eternal message of the great Indian epic. It showed that time is both a teacher and a healer. Time's healing power is truth, which triumphs over the arrogance of falsehood. Justice struggles incessantly against injustice, and emerges victorious. War submits to peace. Construction follows destruction, and reconciliation replaces rancour. When that happens, battlefields make way for schools, universities, hi-tech industries, verdant rice…