A touch of order was restored in New Delhi this week. The calm, chatty, busy air of an Oriental bazaar filled the pleasant September air. Everyone was happily discussing trade. That is the way it ought to be in a free market, a truly free market. Competition is an unruly word for what is actually the hum of unfettered exchange, not a market silenced by a bully but one where everyone has a stall and all share a common stake in peace and absence of turbulence. For all of us plunged into intimations of anarchy and disequilibrium, the comforting summit…



