TY - BOOK AU - Padmanabhan,S TI - The writing on the wall, India checkmates America 2017 SN - 8170491754 U1 - 327.54073 PY - 2004/// CY - New Delhi PB - Manas Publications KW - United States KW - Diplomatic relations KW - India N1 - Novel; Includes index N2 - Fictional work on Indo-US relations in the context of Indo-Pak and Iraq-US relations; futuristic analysis Come the year 2017, the air is thick with the possibility of a war in the Indian Sub-continent. And then it happens. The short brush of arms is not between the usual rivals India or Pakistan - or between India and China for that matter. Well it's between the two largest democracies of the world, India says now, between the natural allies - the USA & India. After 60 hours of booming of guns, the peace is restored. But why did it happen? After a long period of talks, a treaty of peace, friendship and co-operation is in place among India, China, Vietnam and Russia. And how can the world's policeman, the USA, tolerate the affront meted out to the unipolar world? This is a likely scenario of events that would be unfolded in the coming 13 years, the unquestioned power of the USA can only be put to half if all the other powers get together and strengthen the world body - the United Nations. All this and much more, we read in this book ER -