and pakistan are nuclear powers surely india is selfconfident enough today to go global on kashmir no were not talking about a unsponsored plebiscite but why not have an international human rights conference in srinagar and invite everyone including the sponsors of jihad to it that could be the first step to evolving a special status for kashmir not as a barbed wire enclave but as a showcase window on the open society of indiasimilarly why not have a world ecumenical council in ayodhya on the theme of disputed religious sites the world over from jerusalem to spanish churches which once were mosques if nothing else such an initiative would help put this longfestering dispute into a larger perspective this would also be in keeping with the marketing mantra of glocal using a global fulcrum to handle local problemsif the 21st century is truly to be indias as the new pm has prophesied we have little time to lose so lets get cracking right away over to you dr singh