External and Internal 'Threats' Romesh Thapar I WONDER which scenario will take over and1 divert the energies of our 700 million. There are two running a close race. There is the concoction known as the threat from across the Indo-Pak border, specially prepared in the PM's secretariat, and there is the other cocktail brewing under the label of beef/pig tallow pollution in 'shudh1 vanaspati. A thoughtless political system can do little else other than produce such scenarios.