Towards FreedomEssay Preview: Towards FreedomReport this essayTowards FreedomSrinath JagannathanThe dawn of an anniversary allows us to bring out the dictionary of introspection. As the 58th anniversary celebrations of the epoch of our independence approach, we must ponder upon what the acquisition of sovereignty must mean to us as a nation. In 1947, all of us would have liked to imagine that sovereignty was a guarantee for economic prosperity shrouded in the faldage of social equity and the irreversible grant of freedom and liberties to all citizens. Yet the departure of the British introduced dual sovereignties in the sub-continent. After a few years, triple sovereignties emerged. Thus the fact cannot be ignored, that a vast section of people felt their interests could not be protected under the aegis of a single sovereignty. Hence, the necessity for the disaggregation of sovereignties. The fission of sovereignties is an event more violent than the fission of the atom. Similarly, the fusion of sovereignties is an equally dangerous proposition, for it is inevitably predicated upon the failure of a sovereignty to guarantee a decent quorum of the inalienable human rights as derived from the Declaration of Independence of 1776.
The RSS emerged from a sense of disappointment with Muslim nationalist thought. It was founded on the celebration of the great human virtues that it thought Hinduism to embody. It could not fathom how a people could regard these virtues as merely a hypocritical veil from beneath which would emerge a majoritarian brutality merely safeguarding sectarian interests. It takes but a few thoughtless words to transform disappointment into anger and resentment. Resentment, when enveloped by a panoply of distorted ideological interpretations of the history of medieval Muslim suzerainty in India, soon spawns a culture of violence built upon the rhetoric of propaganda. Propaganda silences argument. But when arguments acquire the prestige of spiritual elevation and become a perpetual thorn in the flesh of propaganda, they can no longer be silenced. Therefore, the ultimate brahmastra – assassination.
Thus, Hindu and Muslim communalists emerged on the fringes as the twin ends of a tropical cyclone engaged in the whirling dance of death and destruction in the journey towards freedom. It is the people who are caught in the middle of a cyclone who suffer the most.
This week, Pakistan played an influential role in foiling the beginnings of a terrorist conspiracy in US and UK. Why doesnt Pakistan play a similar role in curbing terror in India? We may search for ideological answers based on the past, but this ideological matrix can have no place in the act of policy formulation. Policy cannot ignore realities. India is not a military, economic and political power in the form of US and UK. We can offer nothing to Pakistan in the form of a quid pro quo for curbing terror that the US and UK can offer. We cannot offer aid, we cannot offer institutional absorption for the elite, and we cannot offer international prestige by association. But what has prevented India from becoming a power in the form of US and UK? Certainly not the lack of sovereignty, the 58th
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This week, Pakistan played an influential role in foiling the beginnings of a terrorist conspiracy in US and UK. Why doesnt Pakistan play a similar role in curbing terror in India? We may search for ideological answers based on the past, but this ideological matrix can have no place in the act of policy formulation. Policy cannot ignore realities.(p>This week, Pakistan played an influential role in foiling the beginnings of a terror conspiracy in US and UK. Why doesnt Pakistan play a similar role in curbing terror in India? We may search for ideological answers based on the past, but this ideological matrix can have no place in the act of policy formulation. Policy cannot ignore realities. India is not a military, economic and political power in the form of US and UK.(p>This week, India played an influential role in foiling the beginnings of a terror conspiracy in US and UK. Why doesnt Pakistan play a similar role in curbing terror in India? We may search for ideological answers based on the past, but this ideological matrix can have no place in the act of policy formulation. Policy cannot ignore realities.(p>A post on the website of the Centre for Security Policy, the United Nations Monitoring Mission for Security Dialogue in India (SNDMILIMI)) on June 9, 2014. “Pakistan is, and always will be, a partner of India. This is not to say that Pakistan acts only in self preservation. Pakistan is a state without borders, and the boundaries between its borders are to the West as the ‘border’ of India. On the contrary, the relationship between India and Pakistan depends on their mutual cooperation and their relations. India is no different from Pakistan on this very issue; it is a neighbour of India.” – P.G.S. in his book Pakistan and India “India is not a state without borders, and the boundaries between its borders are to the West as the ‘border’ of India. On the contrary, the relationship between India and Pakistan depends on its mutual cooperation and its relations. India is no different from Pakistan on this very issue; it is a neighbour of India.” – P.G.S. in his book Pakistan and India: Why cannot the British and US help? The British and US are both part of Britain, but even so, they are part Americans. The British have no common political interest with Indian people. The US and its allies also feel that the British-Indian alliance is a colonial project; which, not to mention Israel’s Israel, shows that the British-Indian alliance is ill-conceived. India and Pakistan have the best relations between two countries; they would have preferred to see their neighbors as friends. Pakistan and India share a common concern regarding the security of Pakistan and India, whereas India is worried about all of the non-proliferation issues. To the extent their partnership is beneficial, their cooperation is beneficial. However, it does not mean that they have to fight for the same cause; it simply seems that they should stay as close to each other as possible; even while they are in each other’s