Bharat Rakshak

Ideology maybe, but leadership-will, capabilities? Where do you see it?

It can perhaps be compared to the tactic of human management of beehives for extraction of honey. Indians, like the bees, gather and accumulate the honey in the hive. When the hive is ripe and full, the humans in the neighbourhood who have been watching and waiting and allowing the bees to work away, smoke the bees out.

solid defence. This obviously has meant that fill up the honey, and not worry about defending it. India cannot afford to do this again & again. The ability to protect the honey is as vital as the ability to make it.

True ! In the meanwhile

Sonia hails former PMs, ignores Narsimha Rao

Sunday, 10 January 2010 10:40

Iran's Ambassador to India, Mahdi Nabizadeh, has emphasized that the state of Indian Muslims’ affairs impacts the reinforcement of Iran-India relations.

A new line from Iranian theocracy? Do they want to present themselves as rivals for leadership of the Muslim Ummah, even on the subcontinent?

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THis is simple hedging.
International relations will be like this now.[/

I believe we need another decade of fast economic development to Quadruple our GDP to get out of the net cast by 3.5 Auliyas of Pakistans. Till then India has verry little options but to show restrain or moral outrage .

The biggest wet dreams of almost every muslim country is to establish itself as the caliphate. Agter the dissolution of the last caliphate (turkey), this has been the strongest factor within the muslim world.

Iran's foreign policy aggression (commonly known as terrorism against Israel and pursuit of nuclear weapons ) have to be understood in this light. Terror against Israel is the only factor that attracts Sunnis to Iran, hence it is fundamental building block in Iran's FP. (It seems that muslims are able to define themselves only in opposition to an enemy - this is a fundamental weakness of all monotheistic religions).

And so should this statement. Although, I will add that this statement shows that previous Indo-Iranian bonhomie is coming to an end (mostly because of MMS's stupidity in voting against Iran during the negotiations for the nuclear deal).

It also shows that Iran is trying to set itself up as rehnuma to India's muslims, as an alternative to KSA and Pakistan - essentially meaning that the international Shia-Sunni conflict is expanding to India.

There is a lesson in this.

The Indian debate about Islam has remained frozen in a time warp. The mainstream intellectuals who dominate the country's editorial pages and television channels tend to trace the Muslim world's problems almost exclusively to the alleged misdeeds of Israel and the United States. The Hindu right doesn't make this mistake, but its tendency to group all Muslims together, its inability to distinguish between Islam as a religion and Islamism as an ideology, and its championing of causes important to the most orthodox Hindu believers shades into bigotry and religious chauvinism.

In Jaipur, Ms. Hirsi Ali challenged the assumptions of both groups. She was flatly unapologetic about her views on Islamic theology, but at the same time she urged the audience to think of Muslims as "individuals who are capable of changing their mind."

Javed Akhtar, a prominent writer of Bollywood lyrics, declared that "all Islamic fanaticism and fundamentalism is nurtured by the U.S.A.," and accused the U.S. government of deliberately hiding the "fact" that Osama bin Laden was dead.

Javed Akhtar, a prominent writer of Bollywood lyrics, declared that "all Islamic fanaticism and fundamentalism is nurtured by the U.S.A.," and accused the U.S. government of deliberately hiding the "fact" that Osama bin Laden was dead.

Dear Friends:

The following article published just a month ago by a former US diplomat, William H Avery, offers some sensible advice to India's foreign policy planners. However, I disagree with his prescription that India should quit NAM. Perhaps its name should be changed because the non-aligned nomenclature no longer makes sense. Having said that, let me assert my strong conviction that India should never abandon the poor nations. Instead, India must continue to actively help build their economies via trade, investment, training and soft power thereby enhancing her international influence.

Cheers,

Ram Narayanan

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/co ... s/561592/0

THE FINANCIAL EXPRESS, DECEMBER 31, 2009

How the next decade can be India’s

WILLIAM H AVERY

In the past decade India has proved its resilience. The nation survived two global recessions and multiple terrorist attacks with its secular democracy intact and its economy stronger than ever. Along the way it gained de facto admission to the club of nuclear weapon states and established itself as a future world power.

India’s task in the coming decade is to make this future a reality. For the world to accept India as a major power, it has to start acting like one, not just talking like one. Here are 10 things that should be on India’s to-do list for the next 10 years:

Quit NAM: The organisation’s membership is a who’s who of third rate powers. To be in NAM is a declaration of impotence. India has outgrown it, and should withdraw. The remaining members can then non-align themselves against India if they wish.

Forget the UN Security Council: Indians should be embarrassed at its government’s repeated requests for a permanent seat on the UNSC. It is a legacy institution comprised of the victors of a war that ended 65 years ago. Three of its five members are declining powers. India should look towards the 21st century and prepare itself for the new conflicts that will confer great power status.

Build a world-class navy: India has the fourth largest navy in the world—in terms of manpower. But wars are won by tonnage, not by headcount. In tonnage, India’s navy is currently seventh, behind France and at one half of China’s strength. India needs to be among the top three in navy: at par with China and behind only the US. [See article by a former Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Naval Command who draws attention to the unfortunate fact that "decision making in the Ministry of Defence is now very fragile, both in speed and quality. Any discerning observer can see that the country’s maritime power is not just stagnating but is on a steep decline." http://www.business-standard.com/india/ ... ne/384128/]

Complete the NPT Two-Step: It’s a nice dance move. Say the NPT is discriminatory and you will not sign it. Get an exemption to trade in nuclear technology anyway. Then, once you are a de facto nuclear weapon state, say you would like to be admitted to the NPT. It will be another triumph of nuclear cunning if India can pull it off.

Police the neighbourhood: India was traumatised by the IPKF experience but must get over it. Great powers do not let anyone mess with them in their neighbourhood. A young America declared in the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 that it would not tolerate any further European colonies in the Western Hemisphere. Britain sees as an act of aggression occupation of the low country ports of Holland or Belgium by another power. Russia fought a war in 2008 to keep Georgia from getting too chummy with NATO. So, why is India letting the Chinese build a port in Sri Lanka? India has to defend its perimeter or it will find itself vulnerable to more strategic-thinking adversaries.

Lock up natural resources: Here India needs to take a page from China’s playbook. From South America to Africa, China has been sealing deals for the minerals to feed its growing industrial base. India has to start to catch up, and quickly.

Start India’s own H-1B programme: It is time for India to become a net importer of talent. Smart employees worldwide will flock to India’s growth. If Mumbai is to become a global financial centre, it will have to have as many foreigners as Hong Kong or London.

{Its already there: Bangla Deshi immigrants and Bollywood personnel. India will attract the best of the world once its economy starts moving up. More than that it wont see the exodus of its own talent.}

Open up the higher education sector: Apart from infrastructure, education is India’s greatest barrier to faster, more inclusive economic growth. For higher education, many students have no choice but to go abroad for studies, and their parents’ money goes with them. Others can neither afford to go abroad nor get a place in India. This is an intolerable situation for a nation that values education and self-improvement. The only way to change it fast is with outside help. The government should pass the Foreign Education Providers Bill.

{This reduces the cost of social engineering. Instead of having to travel abroad the elite can get brain washed at home itself and pay world standard fees for it! I would rather raise the standards of education in Indian utys and employ the foreign scholars at existing utys}

Sell Indian culture overseas: Global powers enhance their influence by exporting their popular culture to the world. The English and the French did it with literature; America has done it with film and television. India has a thriving English-language creative industry that is an untapped instrument of influence. The Indian government should devote more energy and taxpayer money to selling Indian culture overseas, from Bollywood to high literature. The Chinese are nowhere in this regard, having hardly encouraged artistic expression, much less in English. India has a real opportunity to step forward and define new global artistic motifs for Asia’s Century.

{Already being done but might not be on writers radar.}

Find India’s own Teddy Roosevelt: A century ago, America had a thoroughly modern, young President unafraid to stake a claim to global power status. TR mediated an end to the Russo-Japanese War, dug the Panama Canal and showed off the US navy on a world tour. India needs its own TR for the 21st century. He or she will change the way the world sees India and the way India sees itself.

{What about George Bush! India wants to be its own and not anyone's mirror. Anyway relying on one person sets up single point of failure. TR was in a different world.}


India’s restraint in the face of provocations over the past decade has earned it the world’s respect and paid economic dividends. To become a world power, India will have to continue to build its economic and military strength, flex its muscles and—where necessary—shed its blood. Nations become great powers by winning wars. There is no other way.

{Such great powers lasted only for a few centuries at the maximum and in the end all got hollowed out shells: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece Rome, Caliphates, Mughals, British. India is Empire of the mind. Indian footprints are all over Asia from Iraq to Beijing even now.}

The author is a former US diplomat

India’s restraint in the face of provocations over the past decade has earned it the world’s respect and paid economic dividends. To become a world power, India will have to continue to build its economic and military strength, flex its muscles and—where necessary—shed its blood. Nations become great powers by winning wars. There is no other way.

{Such great powers lasted only for a few centuries at the maximum and in the end all got hollowed out shells: Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece Rome, Caliphates, Mughals, British. India is Empire of the mind. Indian footprints are all over Asia from Iraq to Beijing even now.}

Or, as Mr. Obama’s chief economic adviser, Lawrence H. Summers, used to ask before he entered government a year ago, “How long can the world’s biggest borrower remain the world’s biggest power?”

The Chinese leadership, which is lending much of the money to finance the American government’s spending, and which asked pointed questions about Mr. Obama’s budget when members visited Washington last summer, says it thinks the long-term answer to Mr. Summers’s question is self-evident. The Europeans will also tell you that this is a big worry about the next decade.

Mr. Obama himself hinted at his own concern when he announced in early December that he planned to send 30,000 American troops to Afghanistan, but insisted that the United States could not afford to stay for long.

“Our prosperity provides a foundation for our power,” he told cadets at West Point. “It pays for our military. It underwrites our diplomacy. It taps the potential of our people, and allows investment in new industry.”

And then he explained why even a “war of necessity,” as he called Afghanistan last summer, could not last for long.

“That’s why our troop commitment in Afghanistan cannot be open-ended,” he said then, “because the nation that I’m most interested in building is our own.”

Apologize for putting this here as well but pleeeeaaaase watch this video. It is a microcosm of what is happening to our land and health. Strategic future of India is dep. on these decisions.
This video is abt Monsanto which is a symptom of what the food conglomerates are doing worldwide. They would put East India Company to shame. Please watch video because Monsanto has made huge inroads into India.

http://freedocumentaries.org/theatre.php?filmID=300

'India to be net provider of security in Indian Ocean, beyond'

Acharya wrote
This news is very important.
US wants to drive the outcome of the AfpAk but will not take the entire security of the region within its ownership.

How the power equation in IOR will result is not going to be questioned by US but they want their outcome in the AfpAk area.

It is Indian political leadership, military leadership to figure out ways to make sure India's desired outcome in AfPak area is accepted by the US establishment.