0 SOCIAL SCIENTIST and to cultivate their affections for those they like. Whatever threatens the self-interest or private affections of people is considered outside themselves, it is 'the other'. And people can kill thousands because they have first learnt to call them "our enemy". War, therefore, commences in culture first of all. People kill each other in euphemisms and abstractions long before the first missile has been fired! EPT also took academics to task for becoming the obedient tail of a deformed culture and not being conscious about their duty to reform the culture of militarism. He knew that not all academics make nuclear weapons but EPT found them helping war mongers by creating scares of war and also by speaking about aggression in euphemisms. In the vocabulary of such academics, the death of thousands is an only "disagreeable" consequence of nuclear war and the destruction of major cities is just called "unacceptable damage" by them. A war confined to Europe is a "limited war" for them and Europe during the war becomes a "theatre"* The term "modernisation" is cleverly used by academics to conceal the fact that the weapons have become deadlier. Particularly in USA academics advise the rulers to use nuclear arms as a substitute of, not as a supplement to, diplomacy! These hawks demand a "super killing" power,*they seek "advantage" in arms race and egg their present rulers on to lord over the "politics of tomorrow" by nuking their enemies today. EPT was not so naive as to expect that weapon stations would voluntarily become hospitals and schools. Neither did he expect that national security systems would collapse into each other's loving arms instead of flying at each other's throats. But EPT was realistic enough to see that governments would flourish by creating war scares. He could also foresee that centralised peace organizations would tie themselves up in rituals and be amenable to national chauvanisms at flash-points. So, EPT suggested a lateral strategy for peace, a person-to-person contact across frontiers between so-called enemies. EPT believed that peace cannot be won by merely pushing missiles out of sight but by building trust and good will in the hearts of people across borders. Such was the man whom death snatched from our midst on 28 August 1993.