Sunday, January 25, 2009

INDIA, the WORLD and Mr. OBAMA

Ok...I admit..my comments in the previous blog came from a frustrated common INDIAN ..but that's the power of democracy... Instead if I had blended it with a long forgotten but valid principle of UNIVERSALITY and political olive oil...the collage would've been different..
Let me start by praising Mrs. Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and their team..on the way they've succesfully used the International pressure build-up on Pakistani huqmaran to yeild and seal the LeT accounts by a UN Ban on Jamat-ud-Dawah...2008 year end was a lucky time for a leader who promised change,ECONOMIC Recession being the wand,and also for the Congress leadership which leapt forward in a number of ways.Nuclear deal which saw the Congress play its part in sneaking through the Massive Nuclear leap under the NPT carpet....Now India has been assured with massive civilian trade of Nuclear energy...Big issue politically and for our energy needs...Not too big if you see the Chinese stand as an OUTWARDLY BOLD and ECONOMIC GUN OF ASIA on its own feet(..hats off for the Chinese though..indegenously meeting the policy and planning needs of their country) like the planned hydro power jump by the Chinese almost tripled their production inching it close to its energy requirements over the previous years..this being quite difficult in a democracy with aggresively outward outfits and leaders like Mamta Banerjee(TATA Project fallout), Bajrang Dal and VHP activists ( The bullshit Religion card)....But whatever the case be..the SONIA - MANMOHAN duo has politically and economically emboldened the face of INDIA SHINING...AT LEAST FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS THAT IS...(AGRICULTURAL BAILOUTS apart)....
NUCLEAR DEAL polished INDIA's image as Manmohan Singh met World leaders
(The Republican - Bush Administration playing a huge role in it) and that surely played a BIG role in cogent INDIAN exposure of LeT and the events that followed...The BIG question is..With the incoming Democrat OBAMA Administration promising change..should it be INDIA SMILING or shedding a tear or two...Obama seems to be a well read, politically sound and an immensly popular leader...With the exodus of Bush and the mess OBAMA is left to clean..it is for sure that Republicans will co-operate with INDIA..at least on the terrorist infrastructure that Pakistan has built and fed over the years..
With the first decision coming as a political whiplash to Pak administration..cutting down the funding part(may be hinting towards the approval of alleged links between the huqumat and the fidayeen outfits..which India has been reciting over the years, quite belligerently in recent times)
It is a strange world which bans LeT and turns a blind eye to Israel's legal masacre of 1000s in Gaza...something which we forget that we are members of a universal family (Principle of Universality).But that's the way the US-centered politics has worked over the years.The difference being the approval of a leader who promises change and who has the power to encourage a recession-dispirited world...