Dear Reader,
I miss Violet. I miss Beatrice being my female form, but I guess I’ve changed. Sugar is just weird these days. X is stupid and irritating. Klaus, I don’t know where he’s at. Tranquil is still the coolest person I know, even though we don’t get to talk much. Edge, from Trillians blog is an amazing kid. About the rest? I don’t care.
Now to what this post is really about.
I want to thank all of my effing countrymen for getting a government of pussies back to power once again. I thank you for giving then a swell head by making them win by such a margin. Thank you, as they are now going to do as they wish without fear of any opposition. Thank you for making a puppet Prime Minister whose strings are pulled by a lady who I find difficult to call an Indian.
I’d like to ask what you saw in a government who after being attacked and humiliated by just 10 Pakis with evident aid of Pakistani military, just threw a few words here and there and then cooled down. What happened to the action that was promised? I think the fear of what the rest of the world would think of the action stopped them. It was an attacked on OUR country! Why care what they think? Anyway, if they were in our place they’d have Pakistan begging for mercy. Take the example of the US with Afghanistan and Iraq. Or of Palestine with a country as tiny as Israel. What happens now ought to be a known fact. We shall become a lapdog to the USA. But that’s a good thing, isn’t it? We all love that country more than our own already, don’t we?
The government. Ah! What a wonderful one this is. A government which let a convicted terrorist live after a verdict. Why? They feared a collapse in their vote bank of Muslims. A government which hogs all the credit for brainchildren of their predecessor. i.e. - The Golden Quadrilateral project, the Delhi Metro.
What’s the strongest argument against their predecessor? That they let a terrorist walk free in exchange for 400 lives?! What should they have done? Let those civilians be killed? It’s still better than being attacked in an important metropolitan and have close to 500 people killed.
The next argument would be that their views are based on Hindu culture too much. Let me tell you something. Hinduism is the most tolerant and compatible way of living. Plus, it was never a religion in the first place. It is now because we’ve wrongly made it one. Therefore, I see no religious divides in the Hindutva policies. And before you presume what Hindutva is, go read about it.
The NDA is undoubtedly a lot bolder and sterner that the UPA. They conducted the first ever nuclear test which caused unrest in Pakistan. Their response? Stationing the armed forces at the border to shut them up. Next, a few terrorists along with the Pakistani military infiltrate our border and station themselves on Indian soil slyly. To this, they declared war.
I doubt the self conscious UPA to have done this because they would have cared too much about what the US would say to this.
The result would have been, Kashmir in Pakistani hands and a full fledged nuclear war as our neighbors would have got plenty of time to plan an attack.
It was better off when the youth thought that they’re too cool to vote. Even though the percentage of voters was comparatively less, at least the people who voted cast their votes with calculation.
What do we have now?
People voting for the Congress because their famous leaders are young, the girls find them cute or they speak fast English.
Ah! That’s some ‘Youngistan’.
I thank you once again for helping aggravate the already pitiful state my country is in.
With all due fucking respect,
Esh Dec In
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I agree with your point that the present government is ineffectual, but I do feel that it was the best option. The NDA has allied itself with Hindu fundamentalist (not 'Hindutva') groups which have already shown, many times, how far they are willing to go in order to force people to conform to some narrow definition of 'Hinduism'. What about Godhra, Babri Masjid and the various attacks on innocent people like in the Mangalore pubs and people celebrating Valentine's Day in Mumbai? Also, they opposed the passing of the nuclear bill for purely political reasons (to oppose the party in power), which shows that, like any other party, narrow politics is their main agenda rather than the country's growth.
And you cannot compare the USA's foreign policy stance with that of India's. We simply do not have the resources and international clout to be able to react the way they do. The USA's actions have also been motivated by economic reasons such as oil, which is purely opportunistic behaviour. Are you suggesting that India emulate that? Jumping into war is not the smartest option always. And as you can see today, Pakistan is facing the consequences.
Godhra had nothing to do with the NDA and the reaction to that was stern enough. It was a group of religious fanatics going crazy because a train was burnt. Wrong way to react, I agree.
The Babri Masjid thing has enough arguments on both sides, so it's unfair to call it an issue.
The Mangalore incident was VERY VERY wrong. I agree. But, those people have little say on the government policies.
Not the US, but what about Israel?
Pakistan is facing consequences of wrongly starting a war and losing, we haven't lost a war except for the little encounter with China in 1961. And I doubt us being defeated by Pakistan. And anyway we wouldn't be fighting with Pakistan for anything like that, they don't have anything. Stupid country, with fucked up policies and always in a state of denial.
Godhra had everything to do with the NDA. As did the Mangalore pub attack. It is groups like these that the NDA uses to consolidate its vote bank, as these groups have appeal with the ultra-conservative groups in society. The NDA is indebted to these people, they form the grassroots of the BJP. They may not have direct power in their hands, but they do, indirectly, hold influence within the party. Some of them may even make it to mainstream politics. So you cannot really dissociate them from the NDA.
Israel: The situation in Israel is very different. Firstly, they had unconditional US support in terms of weaponry as well as international relations. Secondly, the Jews took over land in what used to be Palestine (claiming authority from the Torah, their ancient text), and through a policy of immigration, outnumbered the Arabs living there, with some help from the USA and Britain. The whole state of Israel is built on the fundamental premise of aggression. Indian history and culture are very different. We do not have unconditional US backing. Recently, in his Cairo speech, Obama himself says that Israel's policy of settlement is unfair and that they have to accept the rights of a Palestinian state. Yes, even Israel's BIGGEST ALLY thinks that they've gone too far. So comparisons cannot be made with Israel either.
When I said "jumping into war is not always an option", I didn't mean to say that we shouldn't go to war because we'd lose. What I meant was, economically, India and the world was in the middle of a crisis by the end of last year, and we simply weren't in a position to fight a war. War was not economically feasible. And there's also the small problem of nuclear weapons. War in these times can easily escalate beyond control, and where would that leave us? The whole point behind nuclear weapons is that no country actually uses them, because if you have them, no one would dare use them against you. But what if some Islamic fundamentalist in Pakistan managed to get enough power? Those guys' sense of self-preservation is pretty much drowned in their hatred of India and non-Muslims.
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