It is surprising for me that a person who have been living quite far away from India for so long period still can write so beautiful things about the country. Real patriotism.
How come the author forgot Steven Cohen & Frank Pallone. To me probably they too contributed to current Indo-US friendship equally like those three gentlemen mentioned if not more.
Thank you Rediff, please publish this kind of searching article more. Create a new dimension for the clean journalism beyond caste and communalism that you practice often.
All three, Galbraith, Moynihan, and Rosenthal were men of different mettle. At a time when India had very few people to engage with in the west, these three were, in a way, path makers. India should remember them with gratitude and grace, not because they were 'goras' or Americans, but because they became genuine friends of India in the international world, who took our causes forward, and spoke for us in times of crises.
It is a timely article to remind everyone what India has faced in the past with USA,Indopak-wars,China war and isolation from the World powers for India's stand on Kashmir or its nuclear policies.I welcome and wait to read your Book on India,1946-1992
RE:India's oldest friends
by photonman on May 31, 2007 03:49 AM
Who cares what these goras think? We can buy 10 of them today. In the so-called international jungle, we are strong enough (and large enough) to manage on our own, thank you...
RE:India's oldest friends
by Sreekanth Nemani on May 31, 2007 06:36 AM
there was never a man or nation that prospered without true friends... friends that you can buy are easily bought by our enemies too... friends that choose you as friends will stick by you when it matters!!
Idiots - the article clearly says 'remembering Three of India's oldest friends' it did not say remebering all of India's friends. Maybe in a another article, he might well list all of India's friends for those who feels slighted that thier pals in Europe and West Asia have been omitted. As the saying goes, 'a friend in need is a friend indeed - they did stand up for India in her greatest hours of need, and had her left-leaning egotistical leaders not been such pompous idiots, India, with Uncle Sam's help, would have long ago become a developed, proseprous country.
RE:remembering 3 of India's oldest friends
by abhishek nair on May 30, 2007 10:23 PM
It is typical for rediff readers to have a short attention span and incredibly sensitive egos. Very few are as discerning as you, Bodh.
RE:remembering 3 of India's oldest friends
by nitin gupta on May 31, 2007 08:23 AM
anyone in the world will make friends only if it is beneficial to them.. so USA is no different. People think from their brains, not hearts, unlike indians.
the world can only survive if the confrontationist attitidue like iran is done away with and all countries live in harmony to everyones benefit.
samit vats, in a message below wonders why no european in the list ? It is worth a question, why the antalacist hates India ? Did he have a bloody nose ?
The important question is why the macalayite, an image of antalacist hates India ?
