TIME was when seekers of India-Pakistan peace looked to the intellectual prowess of Faiz Ahmed Faiz and his associates in Pakistan for help. The magical Pakistanis would join hands with their similarly battle-scarred comrades in India to bring the estranged countries together. Disillusioned with the excessive romance of that stymied revolution and browbeaten by their respective systems, some among the early intellectuals began drifting rightwards. Desperation was writ large in their quest for peace.