Protecting the bus and its passengers during the journey is the easier of the challenges, despite ominous warnings, but the real task ahead would be to permit only bona fide visitors, to ensure they do not stay back and to protect the Indian passenge
B. Raman is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Distinguished Fellow and Convenor, Observer Research Foundation, Chennai Chapter.
