Monday, October 01, 2007

Absurdity of Fitting

Update at the end

Opening gambit #1
: Have you seen Johnny Gaddar yet, it's good, trust me. Hell, it even has a MacGuffin.

Opening gambit #2: Being alumnus of KV which is dedicated to character building (unlike DPS Mathura Road or DPS R.K. Puram), the most important skill that I learned during my final years in that esteemed institution was to fit the observations to get the results. This skill comes quiet handy in experiments whether related to resonance or salt analysis. Bad science, but good strategy.

Main post #: OK the article* in question is not horrible, but only a notch below horrible as it has a redeeming feature made extra redeemable by the rest of article. Any nostalgia about pre-partition era and fond dreams of reunification are ridiculous at best and determinant to nation most of the times.**

Now that we have got the good part out of our way, rest of article is what one expects from our Gungadeen. Pakistan a buffer state? Now buffer state as I understand implies two conditions to me.

#1. Its existence prevents two hostile powers from brawling directly. Of course we still have diplomatic intrigues to play.

#2. The buffer itself is weak compared to its neighbours, and in a way its existence can be attributed to the concept of balance of power.

Tibet was such a state, which was of course gifted to People's Republic Of China by our fabulously Fabian Caesar

Now I am not sure this article is a sorry result of substance abuse or not, but let me state, clearly and boldly, any fears of impending invasion by Ahmad Shah Abdali and Nader Shah are greatly exaggerated. Dear Jerry can not be accused of any familiarity with history or even contemporary world***, otherwise he would have realized that even to compare the period in which the above mentioned worthies operated with the present is beyond ridiculous, it is stuff campy movies are made of. Suffice to say attacks by warlords from Afghanistan is least of India's concern.

This of course can not be said for the supposed buffer state. Created out of collective Islamic schizophrenia, its existence has marked by visceral hatred against Kaffirs and its endeavour has always been to harm India. It has gone to war against India thrice since Independence, not including Kargil. It has been waging proxy war against India by providing financial and material support to terrorists. It's hands are tainted with the blood of innocent men,women and children. It has a professional army which threatens the security and peace of India. It has nuclear arsenal and has always made it clear that India is the intended target. Also it has always opposed India on International forum, and has been more than happy to participate in any plans
to contain and weaken India.

The Pakistan is founded on an idea of denial, denial of the Indian Muslim Intelligentsia to associate or identify with the Indic traditions, and it is this denial at base, which makes any chance of reconciliation between India and Pakistan impossible. As far as I am concerned, in the end either India or Pakistan will survive, or rather to be precise either India will survive, or Pakistan will be able to annihilate India even as it self-destructs.

If Jerry is not as usual busy all misty eyed about the Raj, he could have realized, that Pakistan for all purposes is a hostile state, in fact it will be more accurate to term it a whore state, which can stoop to any lows to damage India. So those NRI who gloat over discomfiture that Pakistan faces are not being bigots, they are reacting like any normal organism (which excludes the socialist, secular clique which has enslaved the Indian mind space since independence) will react to threat. Schadenfreude follows from survival.

But Jerry never realizes as his loyalties and sympathies lie with our erstwhile masters, of course he is so obvious he is easily nailed, unlike the other Indian intellectual who speak in parseltongue. Which is why he tortures reality till it conforms to his delusions. Is he from KV ?

* via Shadow Warrior

**
To be frank most North Indians are not Nostalgic about Pakistan. It is usually the antiquated "intellectuals" haunting various corridors of Delhi, or the Brown/Desi clique infecting internets.
Bonhomie is English Media manufactured. But Jerry wouldn't know this of course.

***
Again Mughal empire was already declining during the invasions propped by Marathas. But again Jerry couldn't be expected to know this.

Update: Damn! How could I have missed it ! Dear Jerry is right, he is alluding to the threat most pernicious but least realized. He is the menace from Central Asia, he is the scourge of Kazakhstan. He is Borat !

2 comments:

Ritwik said...

The guy's gone bonkers. And to think he's from WIMWI, in fact one of the more talked about alumni on campus. What a shame. Is it something about newspaper coloumns that they make perfectly sensible people write utter non-sense? The descent of Shashi Tharoor comes readily to mind.

Anyway, there is exactly one reason why India needs Pakistan to have a strong state. Any negotiations carried out (over trade/peace etc.) will need a government in Pakistan that can make commitments and keep them. A de-stabilised government can never do that. Incentives to infiltrate the border are determined by the political clout of the Pakistani army and remain nearly the same irrespective of the internal strength of the government in Pakistan. And given our diplomatic policies and track record, I doubt if we will benefit materially from a weak state in Pakistan.

Schadenfreude is understandable. But a weak Pakistani government is not very desirable. Of course, the buffer state theory is a pile of garbage.

doubtinggaurav said...

Reg Jerry, perhaps WIMWI is overated ;-)

Reg Pakistan, it is for some other day