India, Sept. 28 -- This week, we will be celebrating the 157th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. Don't we feel his relevance more acutely today, when the world is lost in the fog of war?

More than 50 nations are embroiled in bloody conflicts. The US, along with its rich allies, is waging a war against a relatively smaller country such as Iran. While Iran's effective resistance is bleeding American power, the US doesn't have a credible excuse to wriggle out of this morass. The US has destroyed the very image of the global village which it so assiduously cultivated over the last three decades. There was a time when the US meant a melting pot of global talent. Whether it was Nobel laureate Har Gobind Khorana or Google CEO Sundar Pichai, ...