It is an eye-opening article but perhaps not for our policy makers.China has always persued an expansionist policy and some of Indian territories are always in its hidden agenda with a long term action plan to destabilise India.It will be illusionery to rely on any existing or past superpower for support at the time of crisis.Thus the need of hour is to pursue long term judicious defense policies with a focus on a befitting reply for any aggression by hostile countries. I am always surprised at the policies of our present and past goverments.It always lacked a clear vision for present or future security of the country.I still believe that a historical mistake committed by Bajpai Goverment was to spare Pakistan from military action after the Parliament attack.It was right time to break the back-bone of terrorism as well as a hostile country which is always conspiring with other anti-India forces.In the view of anti-terrorism drive by America no one would have questioned the Indian move.However, again we fell pray to American tactic .I firmly believe that if the enemy is weak its easier to develop good relations with him.
It is absolutely nice to see such an article in rediff.com. Got with nice analysis and It seems that India is observing a soft policy towards Ugly China. I feel it is the right time for our leaders to wake up foresee the things that may arise from china,
Wow... That article reflects the typical Indian paranoia vis-a-vis Nepal, the political backyard of both India and China. The author is a byproduct of just that. The Chinese can never occupy Nepal, never ever. And at this point --- having routed so roughly in Sri Lanka two decades ago -- India does not want to meddle with Nepali Gurkha troops in their own motherland -- thereby creating another South Asian Vietnam... a la Sri Lanka of the '80s.
Even when India went into the hands of the British imperialists, Nepal was there -- an ever Independent Taj of the great mythological civilisation of the Pauranik Bharatbarsha... Nepal will remain. It's independent and souvereign existence, it's dignity and it's striking -- incomparable -- beauty will remain. So long as human civilisation and the earth remain. That Nepal is passing through most difficult times in the history and has been deeply divided at this point should not suggest otherwise.
Good Joke pal... There are better things to worry about in South Asia, the rampat poverty, widespread inequality and discriminations that're breeding problems like Naxal problems verticall down from Bihar to Andhra... and God knows whee
Let Rajeev stick to the issues at hand and not the personalities. Let columns avoid personalise vendetta which smack of vindictiveness. The way he ends the article makes us wonder what is his motive behind the article ? Thanks and regards, Jeji James
I entirely agree with Mr. Rajeev Srinivasan because I have been feeling the same, the day Maoists started gaining control in Nepal.
The brutal murder of the entire clan of King Birendra only precipitated the issue
In 1962 Nehru cried in the All India Radio " Chusual Air Port has fallen to China..." during the Indo-China war subsequent to Dalai's asylum in India. Today it will be turn of "Sonia Gandhi"
Dear Sir, I thought that your article is ridiculously incorrect. You seem to be guided not by reason but by what you wish were true. the analogy you make between Tibet and Nepal would be expected from kids in 8th or 9th grades, not by a professional journalist. Your connection between Kerala and the Buddhists is also nothing more than a coincidence. I had read your article on the massacre of the Royal Family in Nepal and I really think writing about politics is not your forte... you should write more of movie reviews and the like- where you can conveniently exist is your world of make-believe. Rise sir, from this position of ignorance that you find yourself in, and look at other things beyond coming up with some whacky, ridicolous, farcical piece.. I remember you once wrote about a writer not being on NY Times' staff any longer. I could draw a similar analogy- does this explain why you are Rediff and not at something lke the NY Times? Please do not come up with this kind of nonsense.. do you really thing what you write makes sense? If you, then all I can say is , "Sir, your wish is mother to your thought." warm regards, siddharth
well well you are right. the government allowed the naxalites to grow. why are they not treated as terrorist??as for 'hindi-chini bhai bhai' we still do right!!?? our IT in which we are ahead are teaching chinese the stong points. you don't teach your rival,competitor how to compete. you try and create as much distance as possible. we never learn from history
