New Delhi, Sept. 28 -- This week we will be celebrating the 157th birth anniversary of Gandhiji. Don't we feel his relevance more acutely today at a time when the world is lost in the fog of war?

It seems the entire global order is collapsing. More than 50 nations are embroiled in bloody conflicts. The US, the world's greatest power, is waging a war against a relatively smaller country, Iran. While Iran's effective resistance is bleeding American power, the US has destroyed the very image of the global village that it so assiduously cultivated.

There was a time when the US meant a melting pot of global talent. Whether it was Nobel laureate Har Gobind Khorana in the last century or chief executive officer of tech giant Google Sunder Pich...