Five Rupees

Sometimes standing still is the best move Football fans will be aware of la pausa , which refers to the revolutionary act of slowing down, or even standing still, in the midst of the helter skelter of a football match. The idea is to either let a teammate get in a better position for a pass or to improve the angle of a pass by letting your defender move. You can see a great example below, from the 2014 World Cup quarter final between Argentina and Belgium. Watch Messi receive the ball, scamper forward as if he is going to go on one of his crazy runs, then slow down, almost stop, and then play the pass. That pause is to allow Di Maria to make the run down the right. What does this have to do with Kashmir? The point is, sometimes standing still or doing nothing is the best move. I believe it was Napoleon who said that when your opponent is making a mistake, you should let him. That's exactly the situation Pakistan finds itself in right now. India has made a pretty big blund

I suppose everyone has seen the news on Kashmir. I have some thoughts. 1. I don't know if the internet as we know it will exist in ten years, or whether I will still be alive at the time, but I feel reasonably comfortable making the following prediction: strictly seen from the perspective of maintaining the current territorial status quo in Kashmir, the Indian state will come to regret this decision within a decade. Even if it holds on to the state in its entirety, it just made its job a lot tougher and costlier. I also think it has opened up wiggle room -- diplomatically and legally -- that did not exist before. 2. Relatedly, I believe no institution is happier today than GHQ. No, not even the RSS or Times Now or Republic TV. Congrats to Modi and Amit Shah for doing more for Pakistan's position than anyone in Pindi could have hoped for. There's a dissertation and a half waiting to be written on popular right wing nationalism at home leading to dumb and overreaching s