by Sati Shankar
Let me begin with a news,
"The Government has decided to form a new National Defense Council which will oversee all the three wings, army, air and navy and to make
most effective decision on the quality, procurement and placement of strategic
weapons in the country. The Government
has decided to take benefit of experience of certain senior members from
the Intelligence services of our hostile
countries, who will be on board on deputation from their respective Governments
fully empowered. In doing so the Government hopes that this will make the
nation perfectly secured hereafter."
After reading it I was shocked. I tried to raise my voice how can
representatives from other inimical countries be on Board and security and
defense strategy of the country will be
totally compromised thereby making it suicidal.
I ran from door to door, I called for help from prominent
countrymen and groups to support and help save the country from this suicidal
act.
The response I got was," you must not worry much on such
matters, it seems you are ignorant of the history of your own country you see,
we have been having foreigners as rulers here earlier also, our country has
been ruined and destroyed ruthlessly several times, and see, we are still taking breath and happy
in our villages and mohullas."
Also we must not get troubled with things like national freedom and
national defense etc, all these geographies, geopolitical boundaries, and whatever
is contained therein are all just phenomenal, (bhautic) we must look and
endeavor for transcendental freedom (adhyatmic) where there is no dukha of any
type.
Then I ran to our defense experts so I can gather professional
criticism of what the govt is doing for national defense, and to my surprise, I
got bombarded there also with questions, what expertise did I have to be
qualified enough to identify the issue and raise my voice, did I know anything
about defense strategies, arms and battle tactic?
You know, I was given a list of famous defense experts and was
asked if I had ever heard their names. I confessed , no, I am a common man want
to save my country and its heritage,I just have what rudimentary military training is given to NCC
cadets. I was hooted and declared disqualified for the campaign itself and
thrown out.
I ask my learned friends here, Is there any solution for such
solution?
Every idea, every instrument has its proper place and condition to
be applicable. Sword and needle cannot be substitutes. Prescribing or taking
wrong medicine may be as fatal and as foolish as to start writing a poem when
one fails to defuse an active time bomb. We don't open preaching in the battle
field.
Our history is full slaughters and genocides and psycho-socio-cultural wreckage as instances.
Is our country so empty of capability and pride that it has no
alternative other than keeping hostile decision makers on its Board of national
defense council?
Now, my one line question is,
"are we totally dead to defend our own heritage and protect it from
enemies of the tradition well equipped with the modern weaponry?"
I think the same is the question which has been raised by Mr Rajiv
Malhotra, in his "The Battle for Sanskrit" which I term "The
Battle for Sanskriti" for better,to assimilate even those who do not feel
as belonging to Sanskrit but believe and wish to preserve Indian Heritage and Dharma.
अक्लमंद को इशारा काफ़ी है
Note: News above is fictitious and for illustration as analogy
to the situation in question. note what is written in devnagari to not to be
misguided
