I agree. It is difficult to even read the text of the speech, what to say of the beleagured listeners. Alas, Indian Diplomacy does not believe in brevity. We take pride in our ability to lecture people. In the era just after independence, we began to lecture the world about our golden heritage and our commitment to peace, friends to all and enemies of none. The ground situation turned out to be one big tragedy. Our so called friends and neighbours called us wily, cowardly, and hypocritical and attacked us mercilessly. In spite of the dramatic difference between then and now, we continue this useless and mostly vain posturing. No foreign policy however well meaning can cut much ice so long as our people continue to elect crooks, freebooters and men of low cunning and innate criminality to the august parliament to guide the affairs of the state. As a major foreign policy initiative we need to put entry barriers to candidacy to membership of the parliament, if possible by amending the constitution. We have clear our own self created mess before we go around teaching the world on peace and good neighbourliness.
