There is too much emphasis on Anderson which suits the main culprits. Let us drop this focus on all things phoren and look inwards. The real problem is the ugly Indian. The guys who are responsible for the Bhopal people still drinking contaminated water, even as of today, are Indians. And they are in India,very accessible. In Krygystan, the people who tormented 120 Indian students may be foreigners but the embassy officials who treated them so inhumanly thereafter are all Indians. The guys who blocked the Manipur highway may be inaccessible goons but those who decided it was a matter not worthy of central intervention for 64 hellish days are all accessible Indians. It is also known that those who engineered this blockade are Indian marwari families of Imphal who benefited by blackmarketing scarce commodities during those days. Let us listen to Nehru and hang the black marketers, and other ugly Indians, by the nearest lamp post. The practical problem, though, is - how will you get so many lamp posts!
Let us clean up India even if it means letting go of Anderson. Charity must begin at home.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
India's 'Success' on 26/11
I wrote the following lines just after the Mumbai terror attack ( 26/11 )
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Mumbai terror incident and our responses thereof have been a microcosm of what the national security is today. Let us analyze it dispassionately.
Operational conduct of the anti terrorist operations was not at all effective. The very fact that it took around 300 NSG commandos, supported by MARCOS, the local military units and the whole state machinery to clean up 10 poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly led civilians and that it took 3 days in doing so is proof itself. If someone claims that Kasab and friend were well trained, well armed and well led, one would be at a loss of adjectives for the equipment, training and professional leadership available to our security forces. The crowning glory came just a few days back when it was known that the terrorists managed to sleep one entire night after starting the mayhem!
Recently, one saw telecasts on Special forces ( Line of Fire – Times Now), NSG training ( Dhoni show ) and the glittering military might on 26 Jan. But what did they achieve during the Mumbai terror? They were neither able to deter the enemy, foil the attempt or counter it effectively.
Thereafter the country showed no spine in hitting out at where it itself claims the terrorists live and train. Some cost benefit exercise seems to have prevented the country from taking action. It is true that we have lost the military edge long back but that is no one else’s fault. All that our people see on a day to day basis is the sensex and cricket. So this loss of military differential obviously went unnoticed. Now, it is payback time and too late.
But if you think that cost benefit exercises are the way countries with honour behave, look South. Just next to us is the small island of Sri Lanka. At one point Sri Lankan army was being clearly pushed around by LTTE. But with national honour at stake, they decided to get up and get counted. It took them some decades and massive casualties to do so, but they retrieved their honour. Even if they hadn’t trounced LTTE and had perished in the effort, the world would have treated them with more respect than they will ever treat India. When one’s family members get raped, one has to get up and go after the rapists even if it is at unacceptable cost. We have consistently failed that test. We, who did not act when our parliament was attacked, did as has been our pattern.
And our people have shown that nothing can shake them out of their self induced tupor. For whom do the bells toll? The toll for thee and me. The VIPs have NSG security.
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Mumbai terror incident and our responses thereof have been a microcosm of what the national security is today. Let us analyze it dispassionately.
Operational conduct of the anti terrorist operations was not at all effective. The very fact that it took around 300 NSG commandos, supported by MARCOS, the local military units and the whole state machinery to clean up 10 poorly trained, poorly equipped and poorly led civilians and that it took 3 days in doing so is proof itself. If someone claims that Kasab and friend were well trained, well armed and well led, one would be at a loss of adjectives for the equipment, training and professional leadership available to our security forces. The crowning glory came just a few days back when it was known that the terrorists managed to sleep one entire night after starting the mayhem!
Recently, one saw telecasts on Special forces ( Line of Fire – Times Now), NSG training ( Dhoni show ) and the glittering military might on 26 Jan. But what did they achieve during the Mumbai terror? They were neither able to deter the enemy, foil the attempt or counter it effectively.
Thereafter the country showed no spine in hitting out at where it itself claims the terrorists live and train. Some cost benefit exercise seems to have prevented the country from taking action. It is true that we have lost the military edge long back but that is no one else’s fault. All that our people see on a day to day basis is the sensex and cricket. So this loss of military differential obviously went unnoticed. Now, it is payback time and too late.
But if you think that cost benefit exercises are the way countries with honour behave, look South. Just next to us is the small island of Sri Lanka. At one point Sri Lankan army was being clearly pushed around by LTTE. But with national honour at stake, they decided to get up and get counted. It took them some decades and massive casualties to do so, but they retrieved their honour. Even if they hadn’t trounced LTTE and had perished in the effort, the world would have treated them with more respect than they will ever treat India. When one’s family members get raped, one has to get up and go after the rapists even if it is at unacceptable cost. We have consistently failed that test. We, who did not act when our parliament was attacked, did as has been our pattern.
And our people have shown that nothing can shake them out of their self induced tupor. For whom do the bells toll? The toll for thee and me. The VIPs have NSG security.
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