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Down to earth , moody sometimes , see my life as an experience and try to live each moment

Saturday, November 12, 2005

The Indian Notion Of Peace

Whenever any bomb blast happens in any part of India , the Indian goverment is quick to find a way out. They immediately point their hands towards one of the three key terrorist organizations operating against New Delhi ( JEM,LET& Hizb M). A statement is then read out to the press which strongly condemns the incident , followed by a similar statement from the Pak establishment. Then there are special teams formed to investigate the crime and things start at a snail's pace. There is no point in talking or making peace gestures to an country whose national policy( unofficial but obvious) is to de-stabilize the Indian establishment. Take the last natural disaster that affected both India and Pakistan. India was quick enough to announce a relief package worth 25M$. Ah, that being a real big amount , most of the Indians are left to wonder as to how this money will actually be spent. Might be 5M$ will reach the needy (Read those affected and not those in power) the rest might be siphoned off into the hands of the terrorist organizations. And when the New Delhi blasts happened, the govt was still opening borders and shaking hands. Why should we continue doing this?. The govt has no rights to assume a moral role and offer an relief package of this sort. The time I’m writing this , someone on the border or in some other part of the country might be conspiring against Us. Think of the effect terrorism had on our country, particularly J&K , where peace is less felt. Months after terrorists attacked the parliament , India was on the brink of an wat with Pak & the news which was doing the rounds few months back was that a group of corporate heads, mainly from the US had succeeded in convincing the Indian movement not to go ahead with the war. It is not that the US does not understand the pain of terrorism, but their version and definition differs. Terrorism which originates from the lands of their allies does not confer to their definition. My take here is that Indian govt should have taken a strong position at that point of time. It was very much obvious how shaken the Pak govt was at that time. Better late than never, we should start taking some measures in this regard. As to what these measures can be, me being a common observer and not an astute policymaker, cannot offer that great a solution or anything of that sort. The least that i can do is to suggest that the establishment take clues from what other nations who have been plagued by terrorism have been adopting. If we don't send proper messages at junctures like these , we will be taken for granted and in our case the opposite party is very good in sending mesages, the last being that they are not terribly affected by the earthquake as was portrayed by the media , by organizing the delhi blasts.