Tavleen Vindicates Me
Sunday, 4. November 2007 - 9:28 PM
Barely a couple of days after I wrote about Prakash Karat openly stating that Chinese interests are higher than our own, Tavleen Singh vindicates me with a superb article. I’ve pasted it in full here.
To China, with love
Tavleen SinghAs someone who is convinced that Indian Communists serve as a Chinese fifth column in our beloved Bharat Mata, I look for every chance to expose their treasonous behaviour. Generally, it’s hard to catch our comrades red-handed. Unlike the common or garden variety of Indian politician, Communists tend to be clever creatures full of obfuscation, ideological mumbo-jumbo and deception. When they speak for China, they do so in a way that makes your average newspaper reader think they are speaking in India’s national interest. But last week Commissar Karat’s Chinese knickers were on full display.
Speaking in Kolkata at probably the only event left in the world that continues to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Soviet revolution, the Commissar had this to say:
“We shall not rest in our fight till strategic ties with the US are snapped … India is a prize for the US and not Pakistan because of its market. Developed India can be useful for counter-balancing China. This is a game the US is trying to play which has to be foiled.â€
Comrade Karat said the US was trying to contain China because, by the middle of this century, the Chinese economy would equal that of the US and this would make it “the most powerful socialist country capable of challenging the might of the US.â€
We know that our Marxists hate the US and in equal and opposite measure love China as the sole surviving Marxist superpower. So to me what was most interesting about Commissar Karat’s statement was that reference to a “developed†India being used to balance China.
What did he mean? Is he suggesting that India curb its attempts to become a developed country because a rich, powerful India might harm China’s economic interests? If he is suggesting that, then much of what the Marxists have been up to in the past three years becomes as clear as clear can be.
They have used their power over this government to stop all the things that would have benefited India. China’s economic reforms, which began in the early 1980s under Deng Xiao Ping, became a model that we in India tried to follow. The Marxists know this well and often do in West Bengal what they oppose at the Centre. But so abject has Dr Manmohan Singh’s government been in its submission to Marxist will that there was not a murmur of protest till the nuclear deal.
Tragic, if you consider what could have happened under a prime minister who is credited with having started the process of reforming India’s economy. Even more tragic, if you consider that he works with a finance minister who is a dedicated reformer. In a recent lecture Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said, “For three decades after Independence, India adopted a dirigiste model of economic development. In those years, India’s GDP grew at an average rate of 3.5 per cent. I call those years the lost decades.â€
It is the policies of those lost decades that the Marxists would have us return to. To this end they have forced the government to abandon all attempts at economic reform. With privatisation and labour reform, they have ideological problems, but interestingly they have done nothing to improve public education and healthcare. Surely it is “anti-people†to continue to have public healthcare and schools of such appalling quality?
They have done nothing either to force the government’s pace on the building of infrastructure, so thousands of major projects languish in suspended animation raising costs to taxpayers by the minute. I have always wondered why the Communists never tried to help in matters that directly benefit ordinary Indians. But now the Commissar has given us the answer. It is not in China’s interests for India to become a developed country because it would then be used by the US as a counter to China. To put it even more clearly, it is in the interests of Indian Communists that India remains poor, debased and decrepit forever because then India does not matter.
Well, here is what I think. We must increase our strategic, commercial and nuclear ties with the US to foil this game of Chinese checkers in which we do not even know the rules. It is a shame the prime minister did not have the courage to call the Marxists’ bluff on the nuclear deal, but it’s not too late. Let him stand up to them even now. If they force an early election, there is every indication that Congress will benefit and they will end up in history’s dustbin. What a pleasant thought that is, because it is in that dustbin they belong.
5. November 2007 - 12:07 AM
Wonder what the commie lapdogs of the Indian blogdom -Locana’s Anand, Sid Varadarajan, Krish the Krackpot, the Profound Prafool, and the Pir of Poverty Porn Poorism Sainath are braying over. While West Bengal witnesses food-riots these worthies can’t take notice and must instead tighten on their Chini Chaddis!
Not to miss a stinging slap to the Chief Chini Chaddiwala’s You-Know-What – This time from The Telegraph
http://tinyurl.com/9wx4g
SEASONAL COMRADE
For the innumerable members of the Prakash Karat fan club this has been the week of surprise. The good comrade discovered that the Indian prime minister is indeed a man of integrity, never mind the fact that Manmohan Singh has chosen to sell his nation’s interest to the United States of America. Never mind the fact that the buyer is the great devil himself. The gospel according to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) says so. And only a heretic will dispute the gospel. His next discovery, proclaimed yesterday, was no less stunning. He described China as a “powerful socialist†country. If China is socialist, pray what is a capitalist country? And what exactly is Shanghai? The new Dien Bien Phu? If the road to revolution connects Shanghai and Calcutta, as it was said to have done once, the West Bengal chief minister’s ideological predilections are not difficult to fathom. One need not read too much into the new thoughts of the general-secretary. (Pity he does not call himself the chairman). This is the silly season in Bengal. The monsoon does not want to end. And winter is kept waiting like a petulant lover. The no-man’s weather is the fast breeding reactor for many a seasonal illness. Running nose, simmering headaches, creeping temperatures are all physical irritants that one has learnt to live with. To this list one must now add the ideological virus.
One will doubtless learn to live with this as one has learnt to live with the more familiar everyday virus. Both invade one’s sanity. But both can be forgiven as transitory inconveniences. One has a life span of a week. The other of seven days. And a communist, like a woman, is entitled to a change of mind. Only he calls it a historical blunder. But Mr Karat was not merely being the funny man of Indian politics. He has ventured beyond his comradely prerogatives.
The US considers China a threat, he says. Ergo, he implies, it wants to ensnare India to combat the threat. The US may consider China to be a threat. Or it may not. The Telegraph will allow The New York Times to debate that. But does the CPI(M) consider China to be a threat? China and India are fighting for the same turf. Even one’s grandmother knows that. China, more than the US, is the political prop behind Pakistan. And China is in illegal possession of Indian land. For nearly fifty years, China has been reluctant to part with the stolen booty. Neither Mr Karat nor his party has ever expressed concern for this misdemeanor. No bandh has ever been called in protest against this. Nor does one recall Mr Karat ever demonstrating on this issue in front of the Chinese embassy. The general-secretary is perhaps not as familiar with the Indian classics as he is with Marx and Lenin. If he were, he would have heard of Chanakya, who came to the conclusion that an enemy’s enemy is a friend. But then Chanakya was not a communist. He was a statesman and a philosopher. And a patriot. Much like Manmohan Singh, who inherits a similar mantle some two thousand years later.
5. November 2007 - 6:42 AM
Wah Wah!! Just because Commies are out to gut the country for China, India should do the opposite and embrace the fake amrikan nuke deal. There is a third way and that is the nationalist way.
5. November 2007 - 12:16 PM
Dark Lord; The “Nationalists” gave up long back. There is no authentic “Nationalist” voice current with it’s credibility intact. We know who “friends of China” are. But can we trust it’s supposed “enemies”?
Let these “enemies” own up to their blunders first and denounce those who committed them. Probably they can then think of starting afresh. Until then, let’s watch traitors that are open.
5. November 2007 - 12:43 PM
Until then, let’s watch traitors that are open. >>>
Spoken like a true kangressi. So we are suppose to focus on the hysterics of CPI-M but ignore the sonias and manmorons who actually brought this fake sell-out deal to the table. Meanwhile, the nationalists who are speaking the truth about the deal are to be blacklisted because of some nebulous “lack of credibility”. Wah Wah!!
5. November 2007 - 1:25 PM
Who are the credible “Nationalists” who speak against the deal? Presumably the 1-2-3 deal.
What might, in your opinon, be “credible” and “Nationalist” with reference to India’s relations with China?
Please note…I have not yet spoken for or against this “deal”.
5. November 2007 - 1:25 PM
Dark Lord… Palahalli is a commie, not a Congressi.. Heck, what difference..
5. November 2007 - 1:27 PM
Who are the credible “Nationalists†who speak against the deal? Presumably the 1-2-3 deal.
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Comrade halli,
We dont have credible Leftists /Communists either
5. November 2007 - 1:37 PM
Shadows; Thank you for that confirmation.
7. November 2007 - 12:12 AM
Maybe this should convince the dumbo DDsouza where he makes a brief for these people not to be called traitors. Naaah – with his ideological beliefs I hope for too much.
http://dcubed.blogspot.com/2007/10/dressed-up-or-not.html#comments