At a time when India’s ties with Pakistan have reached its lowest in backdrop of Pulwama attack, ThePrint recalls A.B. Vajpayee’s bus diplomacy of 1999.
The next time you see a post featuring a sari-clad woman at a party or a travel reel from an unknown location, ask yourself — how does her joy threaten yours?
From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.
It requires both courage and statesmanship – what some call the high road – to talk about enduring peace between India and Pakistan. Not in a dewy, sentimental way, but fully conscious of the challenges and the pitfalls, and from a position of strength and deterrence. Vajpayeeji deserved his Bharat Ratna. UPA ought to have conferred it in 2005.
Jung is mehenga sauda indeed.
But we seem to be not interested in keeping ABV alive in us
It requires both courage and statesmanship – what some call the high road – to talk about enduring peace between India and Pakistan. Not in a dewy, sentimental way, but fully conscious of the challenges and the pitfalls, and from a position of strength and deterrence. Vajpayeeji deserved his Bharat Ratna. UPA ought to have conferred it in 2005.