Last year, I was fortunate to be there to witness history - India’s firstcricket tour of Pakistan in nearly 15 years. Cricket broke through severallayers of tension. It was a time of great festivity and camaraderie, of unionand celebration. There were scenes unimaginable in the past - Indians andPakistanis walking arm in arm, fans having painted an Indian flag on one cheek,a Pakistani one on the other. Indians were welcome wherever they went and thelocals were more than hospitable. To me, this is how it was meant to be. It wasa friendship tour, the proverbial thawing of the ice. The two governments hadtaken a step closer and the masses from the two nations spread the message ofbrotherhood, albeit willingly and spontaneously.