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ONE subCONTINENT AND 2 FATHERS
If U have a penchant to rewrite history on Gandhi and (Gin-soaked) GINNY JINNAH and postulate a nuclear doctrine for Pakis, this is your chance.
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In ancient Indian Military treatise, It is expected of the ruler to practice any and all methods to keep the enemy off balance , keep him under control or destroy him, if necessary.
Hypocrisy, duplicity, clandestine programmes and activities. Simply put Anything goes
India's nuclear policy has since its inception been based on hypocrisy and duplicity.
While taking the high moral ground in its public posture that nuclear weapons of mass
destruction are immoral and should never be acquired, India had been constantly
developing a clandestine nuclear programme. It acquired a research reactor and other
nuclear facilities outside international safeguards in the 1960s. It refused to sign the
Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968 on the specious ground, amounting to a change in its
public stance, that if the P-5 could employ nuclear weapons as an international
currency of force and power, why should India be denied this right.
A big country needs a big military - simple logic. Show one large country with a police force and no military
It is difficult to see,
why, in spite of the perceived threat from an 'equal status' China, almost all of India's
military might - an army of 1.2 million, over 700 combat aircraft and its 'blue water'
navy - should be deployed primarily against Pakistan.
U saw the film :GANDHI by Richard Attenborough. Now get ready for GINNY JINNAH
This show of robust reasonableness prompted Prof Akbar S. Ahmed the major domo
of the film project to invite me to lunch and to enlist me as an ally. I promised to raise
my voice should it become necessary but it would be a feeble voice for newspaper
columnists do not pack a real punch when it comes to winning friends and influencing
people though it would appear that some of them cause the blood pressure of some
notable persons to rise. If truth be told, I had forgotten about the film.
Jinnah's pseudoaristocratic aloofness kept the British and the rest of the players from having any meaningful discussion prior to independence. How can U expect a scarecrow in tailored suit have meaningful conversation with a Half-naked stringy Indian.
Gandhi - devious, dishonest , that is like calling Mother Theresa as a lady of the night.
Nor should we be misled by
Richard Attenborough's film Gandhi, despite the critical acclaim.
There is so much it leaves out about him, his deviousness and intellectual dishonesty
and that his non-violence lay in tatters even when he was alive, that it was Mr Jinnah
who sought communal harmony to avoid bloodshed. Mr Gandhi did nothing to rebuke
Valabhai Patel who referred to Pakistan as a "diseased limb that had to be amputated"
and thus prepared the ground for the killings that were to follow. I hope the film Jinnah
brings out this point forcefully. |
