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It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.
1. Who are our border nations from which aggression is possible? Are they not ideologues? Pakistan, China, Bangladesh? Can any author in that country preach such fears to them? If the war is centred around ideology and not physical ground space how can the enemy be defeated?
2. The article has appeared under the opinion column so it needs be taken only at that value and seriousness.
Revisiting this space I find an interesting pattern of comment authorship.
Best described statistically as Predictable ! Usual suspects ! But We the people…all. Vipra (wise) they too are….
Excellent initiatives. It won’t politicise it will instil nationalism for Bharat. Making a Hindu as a religious icon is really poor fear mongering. I have seen a few defence folks toe this line and kattar Congressi and as political as their accusations.
So the author heartily believes that recognition of ‘Clash of Civilisations’ as a determinant of Geopolitics is imaginary ? And Western Exceptionalism and Absolutism fictitious ? And he must believe that India only deserves hand me down worldviews , a national consciousness shaped by narratives of loss, losers, worthlessness, intellectual
penury, weakness, a perpetual Stockholm like syndrome ? Does he advocate perpetuity of a jurisprudence rooted (invisibly) in absolutist tribal worldviews. And so on….
An infantry division holds a line of defence on orders, with or without understanding why.
An army of intellectuals likewise is often enrolled to defend a poltical status quo. If this is not the case here, does he
write this despite knowing the depths and profundities of Bharatiya worldview and its socio cultural byproducts and its past, present and eternal relevance to at least the physical, mental, social and cosmological truths of the world, and see no value in it ?
Indian method of debate you may know begins with presenting the opposite view, distilling its principles and proceeding to falsify them. This journalistic campaign venture
would be more effective in this framework even for the author’s purposes. But what happens is they assume the infallibilty of their view only because its status quo not because they have thought it through. Then they declare fallibilty of the other view
only because it is the prevailing wisdom . Not by exposing some of its bases and countering it intellectually or logically etc. They seldom go beyond the superficial. Same for this article.
As a senior and concerned citizen I fervently hope that people who have been privileged with high positions in the security and strategy establishment would HONESTLY consider some of the following questions , beyond whether everything called Hindu is Right or Left :-
Do the facts of Anglosphere, the Arab world, Christendom, Islamic Ummah, have any security and strategic implication ?
Where does India stand in this scheme ?
Is there a sphere by name Indic ? Physical, intellectual, philosophical. Cultural ?
If so how do we define its core.
If we think we need not nurture an Indic Sphere do we nurture an Indic sphere at least in India ? Is it any worth towards a stronger confident nation .
If yes do we need to disseminate valuable Indic knowledge n worldview just a little more than the colonists did in our youth ?
If yes why DSSC is an exception ?
Elementary Dear Watson…
PAY BACK TIME TO THE NATION !
Dear writer
Ur wrong that the hindu right is catching army offrs . It’s the basic fact that india is being weakened by left wing sponsored by China and pakis isi. Isi is sponsor of Islamic jihad do u deny. Vatican is pumping funds for conversion do u deny. Both islam and Christian church leaders are going all out funding conversion. Do u deny. Have u heard Sikhs jains budha funding conversions. Go to Punjab Uttarakhand kerala assam see on ground the actual demographic change. It’s the writing on the wall that hindus are the target in order to split and weaken india
The military is the last bastion. We must withstand all attempts to breach it. We never had such seminars or discussion in our time at DSSC. Has the military not delivered to need such an introspection or is something not right in our thought process or ethos which is necessitating this discussion ? Where are we headed ? Our senior leadership needs to seriously ponder.
Why are we so afraid of a discussion or discourse? Not allowed to discuss !! Only permitted to keep on harping one version! Is not it better to delve into the topic & deepen our understanding. Ultimately, a sound narrative will win. Questioning or curbing such debates are not helpful. Let’s get out of comfort zones & make an endeavour to understand an alternative point of view.
1. Who are our border nations from which aggression is possible? Are they not ideologues? Pakistan, China, Bangladesh? Can any author in that country preach such fears to them? If the war is centred around ideology and not physical ground space how can the enemy be defeated?
2. The article has appeared under the opinion column so it needs be taken only at that value and seriousness.
Revisiting this space I find an interesting pattern of comment authorship.
Best described statistically as Predictable ! Usual suspects ! But We the people…all. Vipra (wise) they too are….
Excellent initiatives. It won’t politicise it will instil nationalism for Bharat. Making a Hindu as a religious icon is really poor fear mongering. I have seen a few defence folks toe this line and kattar Congressi and as political as their accusations.
Amarjeet Kumar
So the author heartily believes that recognition of ‘Clash of Civilisations’ as a determinant of Geopolitics is imaginary ? And Western Exceptionalism and Absolutism fictitious ? And he must believe that India only deserves hand me down worldviews , a national consciousness shaped by narratives of loss, losers, worthlessness, intellectual
penury, weakness, a perpetual Stockholm like syndrome ? Does he advocate perpetuity of a jurisprudence rooted (invisibly) in absolutist tribal worldviews. And so on….
An infantry division holds a line of defence on orders, with or without understanding why.
An army of intellectuals likewise is often enrolled to defend a poltical status quo. If this is not the case here, does he
write this despite knowing the depths and profundities of Bharatiya worldview and its socio cultural byproducts and its past, present and eternal relevance to at least the physical, mental, social and cosmological truths of the world, and see no value in it ?
Indian method of debate you may know begins with presenting the opposite view, distilling its principles and proceeding to falsify them. This journalistic campaign venture
would be more effective in this framework even for the author’s purposes. But what happens is they assume the infallibilty of their view only because its status quo not because they have thought it through. Then they declare fallibilty of the other view
only because it is the prevailing wisdom . Not by exposing some of its bases and countering it intellectually or logically etc. They seldom go beyond the superficial. Same for this article.
As a senior and concerned citizen I fervently hope that people who have been privileged with high positions in the security and strategy establishment would HONESTLY consider some of the following questions , beyond whether everything called Hindu is Right or Left :-
Do the facts of Anglosphere, the Arab world, Christendom, Islamic Ummah, have any security and strategic implication ?
Where does India stand in this scheme ?
Is there a sphere by name Indic ? Physical, intellectual, philosophical. Cultural ?
If so how do we define its core.
If we think we need not nurture an Indic Sphere do we nurture an Indic sphere at least in India ? Is it any worth towards a stronger confident nation .
If yes do we need to disseminate valuable Indic knowledge n worldview just a little more than the colonists did in our youth ?
If yes why DSSC is an exception ?
Elementary Dear Watson…
PAY BACK TIME TO THE NATION !
Dear writer
Ur wrong that the hindu right is catching army offrs . It’s the basic fact that india is being weakened by left wing sponsored by China and pakis isi. Isi is sponsor of Islamic jihad do u deny. Vatican is pumping funds for conversion do u deny. Both islam and Christian church leaders are going all out funding conversion. Do u deny. Have u heard Sikhs jains budha funding conversions. Go to Punjab Uttarakhand kerala assam see on ground the actual demographic change. It’s the writing on the wall that hindus are the target in order to split and weaken india
A good article on a bad trend. My compliments to Gen Menon.
The military is the last bastion. We must withstand all attempts to breach it. We never had such seminars or discussion in our time at DSSC. Has the military not delivered to need such an introspection or is something not right in our thought process or ethos which is necessitating this discussion ? Where are we headed ? Our senior leadership needs to seriously ponder.
Why are we so afraid of a discussion or discourse? Not allowed to discuss !! Only permitted to keep on harping one version! Is not it better to delve into the topic & deepen our understanding. Ultimately, a sound narrative will win. Questioning or curbing such debates are not helpful. Let’s get out of comfort zones & make an endeavour to understand an alternative point of view.