India, March 8 -- All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal, so said John Steinbeck (1902-1968). He was a man of words as a novelist, short story writer and war correspondent who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature. When weapons fail, one turns to words, for, as they say, words are not just words, there are people behind them. And thus a letter from Iran to Ishitiaq Ahmed, Asian peacenik and chronicler of the blood-soaked Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947, catches attention as it is shared on social media. Sweden-based Ahmed quotes an unnamed letter forwarded to him by a friend in Stockholm. Thus starts the poignant letter: "As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political, it's existe...