Now Hindutva types would doubtless point out that this is because Muslims consider Persia and Arabia more important than the country of their birth. And they may be right. But a better explanation is that Indian storytelling about the fantastic always ends up being located elsewhere.*PS. This henceforth should be called Jabberwockian school of lit review.
The latest in Varnam leaves me puzzled. Granted there is always a journalist's license to add urgency to the article, but the article while remaining true in what it states is defeated in its purpose by the incorrect title*.
Truth is Republic of India has always been at war since the independence. Further this is a continuation of centuries of a co-existence between Hinduism and Islam which at best can be called uneasy and acrimonious.
Also, terrorism is not the war but just the latest strategy to be employed in this war, one which more than physical damage seeks the mental disintegration of kaffir, terrorism is to geopolitics what sledging is to cricket.
We must defeat terrorism. But don't forget this is just a move, and not the end game. The most important purpose of our security policy should be long term which is to secure integrity and sovereignty of this Republic.
Alternatively we can embrace Islam and live in peace. Or at least until the question of Hajrat Ali throws the Caliphate into century long internecine battle.
* Though he does add this point in the last para.
Just to add to the previous post , also can we please stop comparing American and Indian track recored against terrorism. The comparison makes no sense, America is not circled by nations which are either willing to be Allah's willing hand in dispatching Kaffirs or overtly encouraging such nations. Of course this is not to say that Indian government(s) has failed miserably in defending the nation, but at least let us make comparisons which make sense
"History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it."*
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.*
