Art of peacemaking

As the international community tries to figure out how to tackle an increasingly belligerent North Korea, help has been offered from unusual quarters. In a statement to media houses, new-age guru Sri Sri Ravishankar's office has announced that "his time and efforts are fully available to the United Nations, international governments and the community to forestall an unnecessary conflict and make way for a renewed understanding in the committee [sic] of nations". If only Ban Ki-moon and John Kerry knew.