A MATTER OF
TRUST, NOT BETRAYAL
I still believe that the Modi Govt did not lie on the so-called #surgical strikes against Pakistan, nor did it get the #Army to fake these and lie to the nation.
A lot of inconvenient information, unfortunately, is emerging on
credible international media, raising doubts on the veracity of the version
handed out to the nation. I hope that the anomaly results only from the fact
that the GoI is handicapped for strategic reasons.
If, however, it is later discovered that the Government lied to
the nation, I will be mighty pained and deeply worried. Pained because defense
is one area where even the die-hard politicians would not to politics. And
because I also took some steps in my own life and made tiny sacrifices. And
worried because Army is one institution that is regarded far too professional
to play politics with such matters.
And the ruling dispensation will
then lose all credibility with the thinking people of India.
If #Pakistan proposes truce talks and peace, even if
pretending that our surgical strikes did not take place, I think that is great.
We should welcome and respond positively. By doing so, we win on both counts.
In such a climate the opposition should drop its demand for
evidence of surgical strikes, and the GoI should ignore making that info
public.
Ultimately shouldn't the checking of
terrorism and promoting peace be our collective endeavour?
WOMEN TURNED OUT WHEN THEY SHOULD BE IN!
How Far The World Has Yet To Go To Be Fair
Just when women require the utmost care they are turned out. And
this happens almost everywhere where women do not command economic and
educational status.
Genuine Empowerment - and not feminism [unless they both mean
the same!] - is what is needed. As is the case with all vulnerable sections
like the Muslims, the Dalits et al,
Our emphasis unfortunately has been on producing degree-holders
- a case of quantity at the cost of quality - rather than educating our young.
We also let our teaching become commercialized.
Being on some selection panels, I am pained to see the pathetic
standard of our "educated".
We fruitlessly convert potentially
good plumbers into pathetically bad programmers!
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