Mr Rajeev Srinivasan excellent article i appreciate your effort in putting it together. look forward to more articles of such topics enlightening us of the sad history we almost have contrastingly appreciated people like nehru to be of the cadre of great leader.
It seems Nehru wanted to take the full credit of the preparation for The Avatar Kalki. According to the Kalki Puran, india will fight and win over China, under the leadership of Lord Kalki.
However will further get defeated by some western country.
Anyway, for The Avatar Kalki to appear only few lacs of years are left.
Atleast in the mean time, current leadership can show some spine. And can work with the western contries to put the tibet on international map as separate nation.
When will the very RAW group will mature and do something beyond pakistan (Another mess all created by beloved Nehru).
its most unfortunate that Gandhi chose Nehru instead of Sardar Patel for the PM post...
Had it been otherwise, history could have been much better for india and so is the future!
Nehru & Co wanted to appease a dragon / evil force just to make things better for ourselves sacrificing tibetan cause, and during that course, we had to face to evil on our doorstep...
The moral of the story is, fight the evil even if its not on our doorstep...
It is time to wake up at least now and have a strong foreign policy as well as domestic policy.
Unfortunately, we believe in appeasing every Tom, Dick and Harry outside India and within India! Appeasement, appeasement, appeasement. That is the keyword in India.
While analysing with the advantage of hindsight everybody looks smart. Even Mr srinivasan, what he forgets to mention in his drivel-ridden essay is the fact that generations throw up idealists and nehru was one such person..if he belelived that his neighbours had good intentions...he cannot be blamed for being backstabbed. He may have erred in beleiving in cronies menon and others..but then he believed in their ability..why was there not a debate about the people at the helm at that time in teh media if they seem so monstrous to you now..simple everybody beleived that things were going fine..even nehru....when things go wrong everybody is blamed. pakistan still thinks that it would have won the war in bangladesh had its soldiers had not given up. but then everybody knew what was the situation.
RE:hindsight
by murli nair on Mar 25, 2008 09:28 PM Permalink
you are pathetic ! "if he believed his neighbours....got backstabbed" What kind of a leader would administer a country with his 'beliefs' instead of taking decisions based on hard reality ? And yes, blame it on scapegoats, like menon etc. If you were the leader have the balls to take the blame too instead of finding scapegoats from the staff who serve you.
I firmly believe Nehru was more interested to have his name eched as a status man than doing good for india. How can PM for a country be so naive? How can he reject such an important opportunity like a seat in the security council? These are not small blunders, but impacted millions of people for all their life time. The country & people should wake up to these reality & drive the Gandhi dynasty out of the country
Any person born and brought up during Nehrus' times and Chinese war has read or talked of Nehru's grandiose illusions about world peace keeper etc. etc. and the price he was ready to pay to get this 'title'. The Himalayan follies have been talked on and off, but government has refused to divulge the papers to let truth be out. Just by shouting down the views of others Congress cannot wash its hands off the blood of Jawans, Tibetans and loss of thousands sq miles of territory. It is time we mature as a nation and study history disapassionately to learn necessary lessons to avoid such catastrophs. Chinese crticism of MMS visit to Arunachal and our consequent defence of Chinese barbarity in Tibet shows we are still living in fools paradise. Kudos to Rajeev for daring to show the mirror with well researched essay.
RE:Need to study history dispassionately
by Hansal Modi on Mar 25, 2008 06:33 PM Permalink
the best thing which should happen to india is to get a young and dynamic pm, for that reason even some short tempered pm who can kill all those terrorist in india as well as those who are getting trained in pakistan. for that reason i think that narendra modi is the best possible option. what do u guys say ?
RE:Need to study history dispassionately
by bango tango on Mar 25, 2008 07:42 PM Permalink
Hi Hanslal , u r absolutely rt ...if thr is only one perfect person 2 be PM , its one & only NARENDRA MODI ...
I think the greatest curse was getting Nehru as our first PM and the demise of Sardar Patel in the early years of Independence. Now with minnows in the govt and china sympathizers, we can only hope the opp (read BJP) is much better.Iam not a member or admirer of BJP, but on the ground as of today they are party with most practical and clear vision for India
RE:Sacrifice of Tibet
by sudhir on Mar 25, 2008 07:37 PM Permalink
Anjula - can you please tell me why Jaswant Singh escorted the terrorists to Kandahar?
He don't think he went there to party with the terrorists. 150 lives were at stake.
Can you suggest an alternative to what BJP did? So simply don't bark and understand the gravity of situation.
RE:Sacrifice of Tibet
by a g on Mar 26, 2008 01:40 PM Permalink
Your argument is absolutely misplaced and for the sake of it. I am surprised at your fascination for congress which is a spineless, mindless, filthy, unpatriotic, undemocratic party run by a bunch of sychopants even after reading this article. Better be Sonia's keep!!!
