"Pakistan is venal," she said to me one morning during the Kargil war,words I feel sure were spoken many times through those weeks – "Pakistan isvenal, but we are not." That day, we woke to news that Pakistan returned to ussix Indian soldiers’ bodies, all badly mutilated. A sick, gruesome thing todo; and wherever you looked, it caused outrage, thick and free-flowing. Myfriend was angry, greatly depressed too. She could not understand brutality thatdestroyed men like this, even in a war.