We forget we were slaves just sixty years back. We believe our past was glorious & so to will be the future, but the present will always be lousy! Our make-up is to forgive & forget but are taken advantage of. There is a psyche of the nation & ours is non-violence. That worked against British but may have no place against those with ziltch conscience.
The terrorists are a minority. They will never get into the mainstream. They will hit & run. That happenned with the naxal movement. Now religious intolerance. We are not alone & can take lessons from others. US went hammer & tong to Iraq, the wrong place! China has zero tolerance, no questions allowed! Even Islamic countries like Middle East, Indonesia & Malaysia give nothing away. The people are behind strong action.
We give out weak signals & seem to be caught off guard. It is time all parties joined together as one. Or are they more interested to get political mileage? The reaction of one played straight into the terrorists agenda that the govt was behind these blasts! These types of reaction are never tolerated in any other country. One can react that the govt is soft but to deflect all attention & dispirit the law enforcers is just not on, in national interests.
Yes, we take things too easy. That is our psyche but we regroup faster than most. It is also time the govt set-up professional outfit to be ever vigilant to root out this evil from our land. For that, all politicians have to put nation above self!
RE:Inertia
by Manjula A on Aug 04, 2008 03:25 PM Permalink
India was and is a great civilisation and India does have a glorious past. But that glorious past was in the time of the Indus Valley civilisation and not in the Vedic Period, as claimed by this Illuminati Member - Gautier.
Indians have been slaves for the past 3,500 years. It is really only the last 61 years of atleast nominal democracy and 19 years of liberalisation which has just began the process of liberation of the Native Indians, who have, of late began to believe that we too are human beings. For the past 3500 years, most Native Indians considered self as sub human and only conquering race, be that Aryan, Tukish, Mongol,French, British or Portugese race to be superior.
RE:Inertia
by Arjun on Aug 04, 2008 03:53 PM Permalink
There never was any aryan invasion. It is fake theory cooked by british missionaries to justify their illegal rule over India and dismiss-enslave-exploit far advanced and superior Bharatiya civilization than any European ones that ever existed. The Aryan invasion theory is dead in research and well-educated scientific community. Shamefully it only exists in our british written indian history text books (carried over by sickulars), for christian missionaries keen to divide Indian society and white imperialists who think Asians and black are inferior. Please don't fall for this aryan invasion bullsht. The people from Indus-valley moved all across middle-eastern regions spreading the trade and traditions. The Indic spread continued all the way upto italy in west and japan in east. The vedic period started at about 7000bc and predates any existing known western cave civilizations. The VATICAn itseft was a Ashram-VATIKA a place were vedic priests once lived. There are idols of brahma found in rome 30 ft below surface dating more than 4000 years BC. Such reports and scientific discoveries are systematically suppressed by missionaries lobbies. A lot of real history of Indic civilisation, kings, clans was forever destroyed when uncivilised Islami jihadis destroyed hindu-buddhist monasteries-temples in Nalanda, Kandahar, Kashmir, pakistan and bangladesh.
We Indians today do not know our history and past. Hence most of our future seems to be in danger and present in big turmoil.
RE:Inertia
by shiva on Aug 04, 2008 05:03 PM Permalink
Thanks guys. Historians can twist our past. Pakistanis' interpretations of Mughal era will be different, very much so! Let us be more concerned with the present & future, but learning lessons of history, that our freedom can be fleeting & lots of bad wolves out there, to snatch all away.
China does not yield an inch & are highly nationalistic. We are mired in disarray. Even the deadly bomb blasts divide politicians to such an extent we are unable to put up any show of unity - we just play into the evil hands of the perpetrators! Our politics divide us, but our aam aadmi recoup fast & know the game. He knows he has to live by his wits to survive.
Like Gautier, I worry that our sense of inertia can expose us to great harm. We have to have clear national interests to rise as one against terrorism. My point is, why cannot our leaders of all hues sit across one table to rise as one. Even Muslim countries have zero tolerance against these terrorists with three Bali bombers getting the death penalty.
Let us be on guard when danger is ever all pervasive. It need not be killings. It can eat into our psyche slowly dividing even the aam aadmi. Let us create a greater future than the past, whatever it was!
