Mr.
Naryaanan, Thanks for Your Concern!
Janaka
Yagirala
We people of Sri Lanka by all means sincerely and wholeheartedly thank
Mr. M. K. Naryaanan (National Security Adviser, India) for expressing
India’s “grave concern and unhappiness at the growing casualties of
unarmed Tamil civilians as a result of military action”
(News
Report-thepeninsulaqatar.com)
We would also thank you in advance for extending India’s “concern”
to the innocent victims of all LTTE suicide bombers starting off with
the most recent victim Maj. Gen. (Retired) Janaka Perera. Though this
great soldier made a completely idiotic decision of contesting with
the unpatriotic UNP (to the dismay of all patriotic people), upon his
tragic death, let the memories of his heroic battles in Welioya and
Jaffna be remembered. Gen. Perera reiterated the lesson of Maj. Gen.
Lakshman Algama and (not the least) Rajiv Gandhi that terrorists have
no permanent friends or enemies. A lesson which tiger lovers of today
should better learn before it is too late!
Indeed Mr. Naryaanan, most countries tend preach one thing to Sri Lanka
and practice something else. After all big brother US, preaches the
most saintly versus on human rights but allows waterboarding (in short
simulated drowning) in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq. India is no exception
but somewhat difficult to get straight much like the weather.
A typical bully is someone who strikes down at the weak and runs away
from the strong. Thank the British for making India disproportionately
large in South Asia by uniting the countless petty kingdoms of Maharajas
into one big union. After independence, India went on subjugation spree,
starting with Operation Polo in 1948 where Hyderabad was invaded and
annexed. In 1949, Bhutan was reduced to a nominally independent state
with its foreign affairs “handled by India”.. Tiny Sikkim
succumbed in 1975. Nepal was a bit lucky, starting off with the 1950
Treaty of Friendship and culminating with the notorious blockade of
landlocked Nepal in 1989-90 in response for pursuing a more independent
political stance.
One the other hand, India met a match during the Sino-Indian war of
1962. After all China declared a unilateral ceasefire to the humiliation
of India, a humiliation which was evident in the rapid deterioration
and death of Nehru after the conflict.
A similar match was met on December 24, 1999. This time it was not
a superpower but instead it was 5 hijackers who took control of Indian
Airlines Flight 814. India had a record of military operations (in neighbouring
small states of course!) like the 1988 rescue of damsel state Maldives
from invading Sri Lankan Tamil militants. Super-India also came to the
rescue in Sri Lanka by dropping Parippu in 1987.
The world held tight, expecting an Entebbe style military raid from
India, possibly in high style much like the ending of a typical Bollywood
Movie. Too bad India had to send Jaswant Singh on a humiliating mission
of handing over the jailed Kashmiri militants Maulana Masood Azhar,
Mushtaq Zargar and Ahmed Sheikh to rebels striving break Kashmir away.
Also Mr. Naryaanan, please extend the concern of India to the treatment
of Dalits (Untouchables) in India, after all its only in India where
a Dalit going to a government job or university can inspire countless
high castes to self immolate. Hope you will be concerned about Dowry
Murders as well, where countless Indian women have to die in staged
household “accidents” because their dowry was short of a few
hundred rupees. Hopefully the environmental catastrophe due to the Jaduguda
Uranium mine in Bihar where countless tribal people suffer due to uranium
waste will also get your kind concern.
Last but not least, better watch Salaam Bombay when you get the time,
it will tell you volumes about the plight of street children in India
who are in dire need of someone’s concern!
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