I had read the article sometime back when it came out. To me, while it made quite a few pertinent points, it was unfocussed and it never qualified its headline with a delineation and denouement. The term most important can be deciphered in a number of ways. So I will not get into it. However, I will state that it is imperative that one finds a way to resolve things with Pakistan. For the very simple reason that, left unresolved, it will remain as an anchor to any effort we make to surge ahead. It will be a leak for which we will have to expend resources, which could have been better spent towards progress making efforts. And as the article has mentioned China will play us in the same manner others have played us through the short history of our independence Leopold Amery, the secretary of State of India in 1940 had observed India (undivided) has a very natural frontier at the present. On the other hand, within herself, she has no natural or communal or geographic frontier...an all out Pakistan scheme seems to me to be the prelude to continuous internal warfare in India. In many ways he has been proven right and this was something that the partition architects had counted on. The talk of Pakistans plan to bleed us with a 1000 cuts is postactum. The cut which will begets the 1000 cuts has already been rendered with partition. For our own health, we need to heal it. And in that, Pakistan is an important neighbour. And no weapon system will sort out Pakistan without sorting us out as well. We may hit them harder, but the violence and desire to beget revenge will only escalate over time. One only needs to look at Israel to know it is no more secure today than what it was at its inception. Whatever be the personality of Pakistani army, the point is, it is by now mapped out. So is the state of the nation. What is evident is India lack of creativity in dealing with the issue (I am taking it Pakistan will never be able to as it is caught in its psychological impaired state). Dealing with it needs design thinking. For there is a problem, a given set of conditions, a known set of responses and a desideratum. India is yet to show design thinking. So far it shows only reactive thinking. And it is that thinking I question. For reactive thinking is a testament to lack of strategic vision and application. In absence of which we can NEVER claim a place as a mature nation. If Pakistani army anticipates that we feel it is imperative to make peace, then the battle will be lost. Quite a chakkravyuh isnt it? I am not suggesting here more bus yatras, or overt gestures of Bonhomie or Aman ki Asha kind of public display or talking peace. Those are old responses and it only begets known outcomes. It will have to be a graduated and planned out course of action and it will have to be unanticipated. Feasible with design thinking. There is no denying though, that Pakistan is our most important neighbour. For the very simple reason, we are conjoined. If they get gangrene, rest assured, we will too. Mebbe it is a idea we need to sort out with another idea? A more creative one?
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 03:48:53 +0000
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