All I am saying is that the availability of fissile material has been curtailed.

The king has been moving towards absolute monarchy, which in my view won't work. We have to persuade the King and tell him that he is taking the wrong path. You're digging the grave of the monarchy. You need to step back for the sake of your heirs and for the sake of your country.

But the visit of President Bush has been, in my view, a success and it has been a good visit.

Normally, what happens is that you negotiate in advance and then you sign something with the head of state or head of government. Here, there was a reverse affair. Therefore, all this trouble and all this speculation.

German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.