My Journey to Switzerland

think and only then reply. Perhaps, this difference between the Russian and Chinese mentalities has some bearing on the fact that in Russia, Communist control collapsed, whereas it is still intact in China. Mr. Gorbachev was the last President of the Soviet Union. He introduced perestroika—political freedom— in the USSR, because of which it broke up. In contrast to this, the Chinese authorities, taking wellplanned steps, responded to the demands of the times by separating political administration from economic affairs. They granted people economic freedom while still maintaining political autocracy. In this way, they were able to keep Communist political control intact, unlike in the case of the former USSR. THE SOLUTION TO NUCLEAR AND NON-NUCLEAR TERRORISM T he next day (12th October), I woke up early. After a while, I heard the bells of a church ringing from a distance. In Delhi, one knows that morning has arrived from the call to prayer (adhan) from a mosque for the fajr or early morning prayer, and here it is from the bells of a church.