Dictators not Welcome
When a common thread united several bloggers, Nitin suggested that the best way to express our collective anger was to put a No Entry sign on our blogs.
Here it is.
India goes to ridiculous lengths–no matter which government is in power–to appease people whose sworn aim is to destroy it. When Vajpayee was in power it was known that he suffered from a severe knee ailment. However, that didn’t stop him from bending it time and again before the dictator who calls himself the President of Pakistan. After all, he fondly described himself as the “mirror image” of Nehru, the pusillanimous (first) Prime Minister who set this knee-bending precedent. Indira Gandhi won the war but lost the battle by (again) bending her knees before Bhutto. The suave but hollow Gujral all but mortgaged Indian interests to Pakistan.
Now Dr. Manmohan Singh–probably at the behest of Her Lowness Highness–is all set to follow the same inglorious precedent. Political antics are fun to watch but are equally dangerous. In the name of neighbourly peace, we get to witness tomfoolery of the most base sort. Bus rides and cricket matches.
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