Goa, April 15 -- AAKAR PATEL

I am not sure why but we find the idea of in ternational mediation distasteful. This distaste is both for those being me diated and for the media tor. We know this because of our insistence, under all of our governments it should be said, that things are bilateral and must be resolved bilaterally. This is of course with particular reference to one neighbour. And our contemptuous opinion of international mediators was expressed by the for eign minister who called them dalaal. What we are doing to solve a problem that in volves us and affects us is unclear at the moment. We are involved because we are suffering as the rest of the world is in terms of both prices and shortage but we are content to be onlookers a...