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[Rajendra Bhat Uppinangadi]

Rakesh jee,
 India is strong world power even now, but lack of vision with those leading
India as a democratic nation, thriving on divide and rule, has made India's;
claim as a strong nation weak one, as over billion consumers are the
backbone of whitening creams, to drink colas, to use beauty enhancing
solutions which are promoted by hidden persuasion of advertisements,even a
toothpaste is from MNC, not Indian Enterprise, each and every enterprise has
got sold in the hands like the Parle soft-drinks and our leaders do not mind
the most polluting MNCs in partnership with MNCs harming the economy and
ecology of the nation.

And please do not ask me proof again, because come out of your arm chair and
laptop, take a walk around in your own area of stay, see the truth.

Regards,

Rajen.

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Rakesh Iyer <rakesh.rnbdj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Rajen
>
> The question not only is of those working in the DRDO, which of course must
> be disbanded. But your argument is mainly concerned with the quality of
> staff which is working there. If say, instead of the so-called progenies and
> relatives of the politicians and powerful people working, we may have
> technically qualified and competent professionals for the same, you may
> agree to it.
>
> My stand is totally divergent from this. I accept that in today's times,
> unfortunately, defence is something each state has to build and look at. But
> one must remember the consequences of militarism as well. At a time when
> India wants to become a global superpower probably by the end of the
> century, thanks to the ideals set by the ex-President Mr. Kalam of making
> India a developed nation by 2020, defence lobbies would like to spend ample
> amount of resources on missile development and other programs to bring about
> outward projection of India as a strong state.
>
> I completely disagree with this projection because of the costs and
> benefits associated with it. The strengths of India as a state lie in it
> being a democratic, socialist and secular republic, as enshrined in the
> Constitution. Yes, our democracy doesn't function as a proper democracy
> should on the scale of 100, but we do have regular elections, we do have
> governments being voted out and changed without any violence accompanying
> it, and we do have reasonable amount of free and fair elections (not
> withstanding claims of unfairness in the elections to many constituencies in
> India, like the ones for the Home Minister and the Minister of Chemicals in
> the present govt.). We are a heterogeneous society with people of different
> ethnicities, different religions, different practices and customs (even
> within the same religion or region), different castes (and castes exist even
> Muslims or Christians, and so does caste discrimination), and many other
> differences in views and ideas. And yet we live together.
>
> Not for nothing should we be proud of that Indian Muslims have not gone on
> to join the global terror network of Al-Qaeda, though they may have been
> brain-washed to attack the state itself by targetting innocent citizens in
> the name of 'jihad'. (I say may because many of the cases are yet to be
> proven, and yet even accepting that claim for once, that percentage is very
> small compared to the total population of Muslims in India, which is the
> third largest in the world). And to some extent, the credit for the same
> should go to India being a democratic state (as opposed to Pakistan, where
> dictatorship combined with theocracy to produce organizations which are now
> a bane for the global society itself, such as Al-Qaeda, the
> Lashkar-e-Tayyeba and so on).
>
> Instead, some fools would like to believe that power lies in having more
> missiles and nuclear capabilities. I believe that not only do these hinder
> the freedom of other nations to spend on social programs (by forcing them in
> an arms race, somewhat unwillingly), but more-so, they also hinder one's own
> capability to spend on issues which require more resources. For example,
> India faces tremendous amounts of chronic starvation, deprivation in
> nutritional terms, poor literacy and education rates (including enrolment
> rates for secondary and college education as well), as well as problems on
> health and employment sector.
>
> What's more, in the case of Pakistan, and even China, these capabilities
> have not helped us to either attain peace or bully these nations into
> submission to achieve our goals. For example, in the case of Pakistan, once
> we performed the nuclear tests in 1998, Pakistan actually managed to prove
> its nuclear capabilities by performing the tests as a response. Before that,
> they didn't have any proof of the same, whereas we had already done so in
> 1974 to prove ourselves in that field.
>
> And as for China, the nation we were supposedly targetting through the
> blasts, it simply chided us by stating that nations should behave
> responsibly, and thereby got greater leverage. And most importantly, what
> nations like India forget is that China gets greater leverage at the
> international scene mainly because they are economically very sound and very
> important, which is not the case with India. Of course, why China has
> reached there has its valid reasons as well, but India must learn this
> important lesson and focus on some of these economic goals as well rather
> than making missiles as well (which North Korea does, and thereby gets only
> aid from US for its rulers. But North Korea is not democratic, otherwise
> such a govt would have been swept away in a wave against it in elections. )
>
> Regards
>
> Rakesh
>



-- 
Rajen.