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Kowtow:
India Whimpers & Grovels in Beijing
T. SHER SINGH
"kowtow" ... to submit, to grovel
India’s PR machine is in high gear, manufacturing the image the country takes on whenever it finds itself in a corner with the dogs nipping at its ankles.
In recent weeks, India has donned its timeless and ever-handy poor-man‘s dhoti and Mohandas Gandhi chaddar, grabbed a beggar’s bowl, and is whining and whimpering to anyone who’ll listen that it is but a peaceful country once again under siege by evil foreigners.
This time it is not the ’phoren hand’ from across its north-western border, or the ugly Americans, or the imaginary Khalistanis from Bay Street in Toronto.
It‘s China.
The allegation by the Indians is that China has occupied a few square metres of Indian land and raised five tents on it. The Indians are in a tizzy, running around like chickens with their heads cut off. The Chinese? They're hammering the tent pegs to make them firm and steady.
And here’s how the headlines describe poor, helpless India:
“India sends out doves, China sends in chopper,” sobs the Hindustan Times on April 24, 2013.
“India sings peace to an occupier”, moans another apologist in The Wall Street Journal on April 29, 2013.
“People's Liberation Army banner in Ladakh says 'You are in China' “, snivels India Today on the same day, in perfect resonance.
Doves? From India?
India? Singing Peace?
Yeah, right!
The country is but 65 years old, counting from the day it was created through murder and mayhem, betrayal and treachery, on August 15, 1947.
And since then it has fought more wars -- all of aggression, none in defence -- in those years than any other nation on earth.
Not even the US has fought as many.
Not even Israel.
And every conflict that India has been involved in during its entire history of 65 years has been with one neighbour or the other.
Pakistan, of course.
Bangla Desh.
Sri Lanka.
Kashmir.
Nepal.
Bhutan.
Sikkim.
And China.
The latter is the only one that is wealthier than India. It therefore had the arms to fight back mightily, and therefore soundly thrashed the Indians.
The others continue to be either occupied by India or have to suffer its slings and insults on a daily basis. Why? Because India has acquired, over the corpses of its billion poor, a military machine which also boasts a hefty nuclear arsenal.
All of which works fine and dandy when you are dealing with the weaklings who live in the neighbourhood.
It also gives you the courage, when you are not at war with your neighbours, to turn on your own people and crush them merely because … well, because they are minorities or belong to other religions, because they happen to be poor or of the female persuasion, or are rude enough to demand their fundamental rights and freedoms on any other basis.
A dozen internal wars are going on in India at any given time: Kashmir, Assam, Punjab, the Tamils, Nagaland, Gorkhaland … the list is as long as the number of states and regions the country has within its occupied territory.
The bully that India is, it allows it to get away with murder -- mass-murder, actually and literally -- while the civilized world looks on and looks away.
Why? Because their own economies are limping and they think that if they can only get India’s billion poor to eke away their pennies by cutting down on their overly lavish one-meal days, maybe, just maybe, they’ll buy the toys that the West has become so adept at mass-producing. And help support the multiple-car garages each westerner needs so badly.
But then, there’s China.
It’s bigger. Richer. Mightier. A better-oiled military machine. More nuclear paraphernalia. More focused. Modern and progressive, leading the way in a new 21st century world.
And disciplined.
It has a leadership, both political and military, which isn’t preoccupied in stealing and pilfering from the country‘s coffers.
If you try bullying China, India learnt without any ifs and buts in 1961, it can prove to be a bigger bully.
Hence, all the kowtowing going on by the desis in Delhi and in Beijing.
The desis from India are tripping over themselves in rushing to the Chinese capital, having honed their skills in the ancient Chinese art of kowtowing.
In China, it was once a way of showing respect and deference.
The Indians have, however, turned the art of kowtowing into the brahminical science of grovelling. Something you do whenever it becomes expedient to bend and bow. And the desi Indian will do it as low and as dirty as necessary.
Just you watch in the coming weeks how the Chinese rub the noses of the Indian bully in the mud.
I’ve learnt, being a life-long fan of the Hollywood Western, that there’s nothing sweeter, I tell you, than watching a bully being made to grovel in the very cow-dung he has himself sullied.
Nature has a simple and straight-forward way of correcting and restoring balance in the world.
Just you watch.
April 30, 2013
Conversation about this article
1: Bakshish Singh (New Delhi, India), April 30, 2013, 11:01 AM.
Those weren't wars that India had with each of its neighbours. They were all merely riots ... and, you know, it's okay if they are riots. Not to worry about China: they're merely having a riot on our borders, that's all.
2: Kulwant Singh (U.S.A.), April 30, 2013, 3:23 PM.
Peaceful India, my foot. A short while back, India launched a long-range missile, which it nicknamed "China Killer". China congratulated India, and then politely reminded it that China has scores of such missiles.
3: K.N.K. Jha (Patna, Bihar, India), May 01, 2013, 2:52 AM.
Apart from the fact that we have been left far behind by China in every aspect, our military is in no position to fight a war with any neighbour that we can't bully and brutalize through mischief and nuisance value. For a simple reason: our military since several years is bogged down in court cases with its political masters, fraud scandals and nefarious arms deals that put billions of rupees into personal, overseas bank accounts, with no one with any time to spare to keep it taut and on its toes. There is no military readiness, and worst of all, there is no discipline ... a basic ingredient required to be considered a serious military power. Not so secret reports on the state of our military have already proclaimed to the world that, like everything else in our country, our military too is deeply mired in corruption, hand-in-glove with the crooked politicians.
4: Kanwarjeet Singh (USA), May 01, 2013, 9:44 PM.
March 1993 - NDA interviews at Bhopal Cantonment. Army Major Sharma interviewing us confided one on one to me: 'Tumharey logon (Sikhs) ko hum to lenge he nahin woh bhi officer level pe' - "We will not take you people in at all at any level, leave alone ever as officers!". That was the end of my dreams and aspirations. My dad who is ex-Navy and fought the 1971 war right at the Pakistani border had asked me not to bother with the defence forces as a career - why? In his own words, 'we fought the 1971 war, my team headed by me brought the Indian Navy destroyer with one dead and one disabled engine from near the Karachi harbor back to Mumbai. The deserters who had jumped ship before leaving for the war ended up getting President's medals as they were all 'upper category' officers and men but in fact all traitors. The other traitors who were crying on the ships fearing a Pakistani take-over got promoted. None of the Sikhs got promoted or awarded, instead they were threatened never to speak of the goof up by the high command in getting the ship in the wrong area due to intelligence goof-up.' So that, my friends, is the real power of India's military. Every tank, missile, ship has almost all non working parts as they were bought from the Russians in corrupt deals, especially by people like Nanda who happens to be a weapons dealer (son of Admiral Nanda) and is in cahoots with all the politicians. I met two Lt. Generals in New Jersey (one Bengali and one Punjabi) who were here for a family function (the family is known to us) - they were flat-out boasting how these weapons dealers send them and their families on full-expense paid international trips to Europe - where these folks can buy anything and everything under the sun - all paid for of course as long as the 'deal' goes through. Bofors, the recent chopper deal, upcoming aircraft carrier Gorshov, Rapale fighters from France, are all a small sample of what happens in these deals. We have not had a real war for 30 years now - wait till a real one - Pakistan and China will be sitting in Delhi in a few minutes and the Brahmins will be doing a puja to make the enemy blind.
5: Harinder (Uttar Pradesh, India), May 07, 2013, 4:33 AM.
Nuclear armed nations don't fight wars. They 'talk' and sort matters out. Just as the prolonged American-Russian cold war.