I congratulate the people of America on electing their 44th President. In these difficult times, I hope the decision of the citizens of America is proved right in the years to come.
What has been irritating however, is the manner in which the Indian media has handled his election as the next president. The media is trying to portray that with him as the president, there is going to be some radical change in the relations between the two nations. Every where you find articles displaying how he appoints people of Indian origin to government posts. His fascination and admiration for M. Gandhi and Hanuman ji is also being hailed as being a sign of being "pro-Indian".
What the hell? We Indians have a tendency to serve and lookup to someone to take us out of the hole we are in. Do we really want our trouble of cross-border terrorism to be solved by the Americans? Why do we have to get a stamp of all our actions from some other nation? Did America care about the rest of the world when Iraq and Afghanistan happened? Did Israel care about UN and the rest?
And finally, why would Mr. Obama give a damn for the welfare and "war on terror" in India, if his interests are well served, by giving loans and aids to our neighbour? Any decision that he would take would be the best that would be for America and her people. And that decision may not be necessarily the best for India.
Quite agree there. Its one thing to applaud him as a person, and what he represents in terms of a sort of barrier being broken. Thats the sort of feeling anyone anywhere in the world might have.
ReplyDeleteIts totally absurd to extrapolate that to mean "great" things about India as a country. Politicking after all is never about rights and wrongs, only about interests.