The pilot, Francis Gary Powers, had been issued a suicide pill, but he was also provided with a parachute and he used it. - Paul Johnson

It is the nature of the Hindu religion to be tolerant and, in its own curious way, permissive. Under the socialist regime of Jawaharlal Nehru and his family successors the state was intolerant, restrictive and grotesquely bureaucratic. That has largely changed (though much bureaucracy remains), and the natural tolerance of the Hindu mind-set has replaced quasi-Marxist rigidity.

The Holocaust was planned; and Hitler planned it. That is the only conclusion which makes sense of the whole horrifying process.

The notion of ‘from each according to his ability, to each according to his need’ was one the Jews adopted before the birth of Christ and always practised even when the community as a whole was distressed.