7. The countrys leaders have to be winners. No matter how honourable they were, Bharats leaders did not identify with the leaders in the British or were winners in there own right. Nehru was compensated in his British education. Pakistan instead chose Generals as the winners they would like to lead, and for that wars followed their rise to power. It was not for nothing that Nehru denigrated Bharats military high command. The truly great have had no need to denigrate those partners on whose success their own success depended. As a consequence of Nehrus leadership Bharat continues to be a self effacing non-entity challenged by even the small fries of the Bharat subcontinent, Nepal and Bangladesh.
8. If Bharats left failed to come to terms with world history, the right have come face to face with their idea of Bharat that exists in the ancient past. This is an inward looking Bharat whose space is limited to religion and temples, and less capable of responding to the challenges of the world. The terms left and right of the body supposes that there must be a central ground. That would be the case if a rational political process determined positions but in Bharat there is no movement from immutable fixed positions and movement should not be expected. Even within Bharats diminished territorial space, for the want of exertion of the Hindus, space has largely been conceded to a concoction of interests inimical to Bharat.
9. Leadership should essentially pass to the most energetic causes and noble ideas, and nothing could more amply prove that than the Wests adoption of Greek and Roman ideals though they were not always their own. These have shaped the world, as we know it today and well into the future. China while remaining true to its great past was not shy in accepting Communism as it secured justice for all their people without accepting its wider ramifications. Socialism is an idea the left liked, and half baked continue to play with to this day to the detriment of the country. The Communists of Bharat act as an adjunct of Communist China when the international Communist movement is all but dead.
10. It is the easiest thing in the world for a people that have lost the trust of their leaders and country to welcome intervention. It makes a great deal more sense for a country that has been imbued by education and long exposure to the West to actually live by the ideals that made those countries great both in the pursuit of war as well as in peace. The maintenance of immutable fixed positions in economics, politics and diplomacy are not any longer tenable.
12. Under the BJP, there was too much of bowing and scraping to America and a truly reciprocal relationship eluded them. The new Governments distancing from America is churlish and even foolish. While not beholden to any other power, Americas military presence in Pakistan is of enough significance to Bharat that America should be cognisant of Bharats interests in developments taking place in the neighbourhood. Bharats very visible pursuit of a multiple polar axis to counter American influence is unwise and counter-productive. It is bound to drive Pakistan and America even closer together to Bharats disadvantage. The mistakes of the cold war should not be repeated.
13. There is a lesson for Bharats new leaders. A great countrys representatives do not bow and scrape and only inasmuch as protocol demands it. There may be occasions when swayed by a power so great that a strategic withdrawal is well advised and the only course open. But if you are not playing as winners, you should not be playing at all. There is no interest other than the interest of the country you serve, and your friends will well recognise that because they see themselves in your shoes, and you in theirs as the two interests concur.
For thousands of years we were doing gr8.. we were not under any foreigner at that time... even b4 the british rule India was one of the richest countries in the world. Not only money, it made its mark in mathematics, medicine, astronomy etc..all these were not under foreigner's rule. The british, the foreigners, systematically dismantled all of these and at the end of their rule most of the Indians were poor and illeterate and there was no infrastructure ..The just put the slave mentality in us. Itz a pity they r so many who believe in foreign rule without understanding what they did to us. Now more Indians are successful in many fields internationally. The day is not far away where the Indian ruled India becomes a developed country.
