India, Pakistan and the situation

Well, Hi guys, I am back again after a very very big break. I don't whether you will be interested in reading this post or not, but I will try to make it interesting. I've been reading quite a lot lately because of my preperation for CAT, and I was highly interested in the history of India and Pakistan. Don't worry, this isn't a chronicle of the events which occured since 1947, I was just tempted to share my thoughts about this.

India, definitely one of the biggest democractic success, has continually been traumatized by our neigbour Pakistan since 1947. Pakistan gives us the perfect definition of botched up democracy. Every since the partition, they had a feeling of discontent regarding the kashmir issue. They not only felt that India, in coalition with Britain played a foxy game by giving them Pakistan which was very small than their expectations. Even though a lie, Pakistan claimed that India usurped Kashmir (a disputed state), and has been trying to get it back and include it in Pakistani border. We have tried to forget the events which occured past partition to maintain a cordial relation with Pakistan, but they continued the rancour and bred a continous hatred against India. It isn't the younger Pakistani generation's fault, but their ancestors', who were so frustrated with their continual defeat against India, that instead of creating a stable and prosperous country they ended up bequeathing (may be unconsciously) all the ill-will. Education, as all we know, is the key to development, but in Pakistan it brought disaster. Psychologically speaking, every human being is a product of environment, society and education. Same is the case with Pakistan. Ever since a child is born in Pakistan, he/she is taught one compulsary subject - Pakistan History. Instead of creativity and morality, a child is taught nothing but how India was cruel to Pakistan, how India declared wars on Pakistan for Kashmir and what political games India played against Pakistan to create Bangladesh. No matter how smart a person is, the brainwashing done in childhood lingers on for life. Hence, almost all of Pakistan now hates India and is trying to bring us down.

Even though Pakistan has a poor and highly unstable economy, their government is busy in making mass destruction weapons. The GDP of pakistan is ranked 49/180, their HDI (Human development Index) is ranked 140th/177, their literacy rank is 160/177, their quality of life index rank is 93/111, but they are ranked 7th in Nuclear warhead ranking, and ranked 14th in army index. They have received close 10 billion US dollars (largest aid given by any country to any other country) just for economic development, but 70% of the money is spent in breeding terrorist organizations against India.

But, the important thing to notice would be that we can't throw all the dirt to pakistan for their actions. Newton's third law applies here very well: "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction", in here we have Islamic reaction. What we are facing now is a product of our own misdeeds. For example, 1992, the year of demolition of Babri mazjid. Pakistan just gave shoulder to the vengeful muslims to carry an all out war, which would've happened anyway. Confrontation with Pakistan is as inevitable as poverty.

We have now fallen in a grim situation. What have we been doing, what are we doing and what else can we do to reconcile? What can be the correct approach to make peace with our neighbour? Peace talks have been going on since our PM was Narshimha rao, but the situation has rather aggravated sinced then. It is pretty much clear that we can't win the war with power. The more we push them and try to intimidate them, the more we suffer later on. Pakistan is a country which has a good support of powerful nations like USA and China, while we, because of our NAT, have even lost our support from Russia, the only country which can stand up against the other two. Do we really stand a chance in defeating them one-on-one? May be we do, but I think that we won't be able to face the consequences. We are up against a nation which has nothing to lose, but we, on the other hand, have a lot.

What would've happened if in 09 election BJP instead of UPA had formed the government with LK Advani as our Prime Minister. Would it have been better if the power was handed to those who are sorely responsible for the religious mess, the perpetrators of heinuous crimes like Godhra Kand & Demolition of Babri Mazjid? And between all this, I think about Mahatama Gandhi, the father of our nation. I never really understood his ideologies and his deeds, but now I definitely understand what our nation would have been like if we had followed his ideologies. Just like we were united once, we can still be united. We just have to understand the fact that nation comes before our religion or our personal differences.

I believe the victory of UPA was better for our country. I can't even imagination how a BJP goverment would've handeled the situation after 26/11. Their extreme hinduism and RSS' hindutva ideology has done nothing but harm to our country. It is correctly said that the best offence is a good defense. It would be better for our country to strengthen up our defense rather than pushing others around. We could've avoided all the terrorist attacks if only we had been more vigilant.

It is an important thing to understand the nothing good comes out of war. Just to satisfy a personal grudge of few, millions of people have to pay with their lives. Hate is a baggage. Life is too short to be pissed off all the time. We ain't enemies or perhaps, we must not be enemies.