To go nuclear or not to go nuclear,to CTBT or not to CTBT,to NPT or not to NPT and other issues.
Worswick:
For one thing India can not have a strong democracy without a strong military and a strong economy. A strong military is justified if only as a deterrent besides the neighbors are not all that friendly and have attacked the country in the past. To suggest India stand by while Pakistan and China are amassing weapons of mass destruction is naive and not practical.
CTBT and NTP: India's contention is that she would sign such treatise if and when all countries of the world relinquishes nuclear weapons. India is all for nuclear disarmament in the true sense of the word and not in some half-ass debatable manner.Why would India sign any such treatise while some nations are allowed to keep them??? It doesn't make any sense to any intelligent and reasonable people.
Going Nuclear: For all I know India may already have nuclear weapons and now the debate is whether to declare the nation nuclear or not.It seems to me all this noise is about mere semantics.
Hindu Nationalism: To me all Indians are Hindus underneath whether one is a Muslim,Sikh,Jain,Buddhist,Christian,Atheist or Agnostic as Hinduism is the very fabric of our lives,whether the connotation of the word Hinduism is a cultural one or religious one or both. Historically we were all first Hindus before becoming whatever else either by choice,or by force,or by persuasion or deception or whatever.So Hindu Nationalism is nothing more than plain nationalism,and as long as it is not isolationist,retrogressive,prejudicial,parochial and limiting I for one have no problem with it. |
