On 15 December 1988, PM Rajiv Gandhi spoke in the Lok Sabha while introducing comprehensive electoral reforms, including lowering the voting age from 21 to 18, and introducing measures to protect secular values in elections.
ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
Indian political elites should come out of the Box of the Colonial-Master-Syndrome! If India continues the colonial policy of divide and rule among its neighboring nations, they will have to look towards the West for the neighborhood! Serious issues such as making SAARC defunct, taking sides in internal politics of neighbors, border encroachment and border security forces terrorizing the people of the neighboring nations are fueling up mistrust against Indian ruling regime. It is not a good sign for a biggest democratic nation. Indian should throw away the lenses gifted by the West to look at its neighbors and the mirror to look itself. It should have biggest heart and embrace as the nation and not an Island-mindedness of its former Masters! The politicians should study, if they can, extract of Budhha’s teaching: the Harmony of Dependent Origination and do away with Island-minded political philosophy that has been guiding India against its neighbors since the Company Raj and then Nehru!
GDP growth dips to 4.5 per cent in July-Sept, hits 6-year low. India is struggling to survive and aspires to be a dominant force around at least its neigborhood. What a dream man.
The era of the Monroe Doctrine in South Asia has passed into history. China has been growing like a scalded rabbit for forty years, giving MEA plenty of time to adjust to new realities. Unlike the Soviet Union which was geopolitically powerful but economically weak and almost irrelevant to most of the world outside the Warsaw Pact, China does more business in Asia with its most important countries than the United States. That holds true for South Asia, where we have, in our wisdom, made SAARC defunct. 2. India needs to reorient its neighbourhood policy. Perhaps end this petulant stand off with Pakistan. Join RCEP if Act East is not to be a cliche. We should also be the good guys, when posited against China. Sadly, even that moral edge is getting blunted. We should read what a “ newspaper in New York “ is saying about us a little more thoughtfully.
Indian political elites should come out of the Box of the Colonial-Master-Syndrome! If India continues the colonial policy of divide and rule among its neighboring nations, they will have to look towards the West for the neighborhood! Serious issues such as making SAARC defunct, taking sides in internal politics of neighbors, border encroachment and border security forces terrorizing the people of the neighboring nations are fueling up mistrust against Indian ruling regime. It is not a good sign for a biggest democratic nation. Indian should throw away the lenses gifted by the West to look at its neighbors and the mirror to look itself. It should have biggest heart and embrace as the nation and not an Island-mindedness of its former Masters! The politicians should study, if they can, extract of Budhha’s teaching: the Harmony of Dependent Origination and do away with Island-minded political philosophy that has been guiding India against its neighbors since the Company Raj and then Nehru!
GDP growth dips to 4.5 per cent in July-Sept, hits 6-year low. India is struggling to survive and aspires to be a dominant force around at least its neigborhood. What a dream man.
The era of the Monroe Doctrine in South Asia has passed into history. China has been growing like a scalded rabbit for forty years, giving MEA plenty of time to adjust to new realities. Unlike the Soviet Union which was geopolitically powerful but economically weak and almost irrelevant to most of the world outside the Warsaw Pact, China does more business in Asia with its most important countries than the United States. That holds true for South Asia, where we have, in our wisdom, made SAARC defunct. 2. India needs to reorient its neighbourhood policy. Perhaps end this petulant stand off with Pakistan. Join RCEP if Act East is not to be a cliche. We should also be the good guys, when posited against China. Sadly, even that moral edge is getting blunted. We should read what a “ newspaper in New York “ is saying about us a little more thoughtfully.