Whose feet stinks?

Take a look around the room. India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and China. We have this great impression that everyone except India are bad. We pride ourselves on our glorious democracy and pass on the idea for the enlightment of our impoverished neighbours. Lest Terror grow because of a lack of democracy.

We are concerned about Pak sponsored terror, Bangladesh infiltrators, LTTE and srilankan aggression. We try not to speak about China or Tibet or Arunachal like most of the world economies eg:France. We seek solace in similarity and strategic deals with the US. We say Pak has to get its house in order. Have we got ours. Have we covered our bases. Didnt the mumbai underworld help in the 26/11 Carnage. While we have not been able to nab a single terrorist in India ofthe Indian Mujhaidenn, SIMI, Sadhvi Pragya etc., and punish them how do we expect Pak to be able to immediately arrest Masood Azhar and Dawood Ibrahim.

We belive so because we beleive the Pak security establishment (read Army and ISI) sponsor them and patronize them and know where they are. In our case dont we know any of the perpetrators of Terror in India. We have our own forces(political and police) protecting them. BJP wants stronger laws but not to be used against Sadhvi Pragya. Congress wants uninhibited power for Maharashtra but not for Gujarat. Indian Muslims intentions should never be doubted even for those are found involved in a terror plot and a Doctor in australia accused will cause immense pain to the establishment. The government tries to hide the involvement of many people for many reasons in every terror incident. The same way Pak hides and highlights what it needs.

As long as we do not come to terms with the fact that we are not all that great we can never acheive anything. Indians have a very weak proposition towards appreciations. The world appreciates that we are mature, responsible and we try to act that way. It says we grow economically to a Super Power we immediately beleive so and say everyone else is jealous of us. We can very rarely see any news about India in Western Media espescially US. They spoke about 26/11 because Jews and foreigners were impacted. They speak about Out Sourcing as a threat or about cricket in UK that is all. When they come to India or Indian media speaks to them they give the rosy image or picture about India, else they are least bothered about us. Only we try to beat up the drums.

We have to contend with the fact that the nation has not grown all that It is expected to. We have people discontended, we have refugees, we have a general public who have lost all sense of integrity in personal life and a political system devoid of any shame in public life and a corporate sector which is grossly short sighted. We have to come to terms with the fact that discipline has to be enforced in the society, people have to be made to feel Indian , feel elated about their motherland and its culture and values. Our values copied from Western cultures, Socialist, Secular, Democratic Republic cannot woo the minds of the people. The people have to feel part of an inclusive democracy which also enforces strict rules for its citizens that any sense of work against the country will be punished. Not paying the taxes or getting money for voting a party in a election should be as punishable as a theft or murder. Integrity a sense of belonging has to be enshrined through the education system.

Discontent has to be addressed. At the same time disloyalty has to be punished. We should pride ourselves on what we gave to the world, Bhagavad Gita, Buddha, Mahaveer, AryaBhatta, Ramanujam, Ramayana, Mahabharatha, Kamasutra to every other scientific literature has to be patronized rather than priding ourselves on imported values. As long as we as a nation dont value ourselves, as long as we are averse to saying Vande Mataram lest it irritate our muslim community, as long as we are not ready to accept that Indians can be terrorists and have to dealt with by law, as long as we impersonate as others there can be no solutions to any problems.

We should enforce discipline, we should identify our roots and we should involve our general public in a way where they not only know their rights but also their duties. We should ensure Indians abide by Dharma and value the life of Indians and then we can speak about overt or covert strikes, unsecure neighbourhood, India's greatness, Strategic ties, Democracy or what not. We should increase our strength and also be ready to accept defeat if need be, to be hit by nuclear weapons, to be opposed by Pak, Taliban, china et al and deal with them with our strengths and not our weaknesses. Once we stand tall, all these attacks on our society will stop bcause our society will automatically get rid of elements that helps in such actions. And then we can seek peace and spread peace. Until then we have to understand that our feet stinks just as much as our neighbours and not play a blame game.