South Asia’s arms race, an obstacle to fence-mending

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) and the Sri Lankan chief minister of the northern province C. V. Vigneswaran (centre L) arrive for a ceremony to hand over Indian-funded houses to Tamils displaced or made destitute by fighting in Jaffna, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) north of Colombo on March 14, 2015. Narendra Modi landed in Jaffna on March 14, becoming the first Indian prime minister to visit Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged northern Tamil heartland. AFP