Independent India came into being on 15th August 1947 after a peaceful struggle led by Gandhiji but soon thereafter the decision to bifurcate British India into two constituents based on religion created a human tragedy unparalleled in history. Soon ,the Kashmir issue surfaced leading to a war followed by a stalemate with prohibitive costs and loss of life to both India and Pakistan. The decision to refer the issue to the UN at a time when victory was in sight for the Indian Army keeps the fire burning even after 60 years and there is no amicable solution in sight yet. The late 50’s saw the Tibetan problem surfacing against adequate warnings by Sardar patel to Nehru.,The decision to support Chinese annexation of Tibet created the great Himalayan Blunder in 1962. The Chinese war broke Nehru’s spirit and his faith in the so called ” Panch Sheel “. A flash of brilliance in diplomacy was displayed by Lal Bahadur Shastri when he gave permission to attack mainland Pakistan to recoil the forces from Kashmir but this was short lived due to the sad demise of the Prime Minister at Tashkent under suspicious circumstances. The Indian Government again lost all the advantages gained in the 1971 war when we did not press the advantages of keeping 93,000 prisoners of war to force a solution on Kashmir with Bhuto. What happened in the late 80’s in Kargil is the aftermath of such an indecision. The Srilankan debacle of 1987 with LTTE was another poor display of political statemanship.
In the internal scene,we have the Mandal Commission, Operation Blue Star in Punjab, The Bodo insurgency and now the bigger threat from Naxalites and Maoists and thereafter to cap it all the Babri Masjid incident followed now by the Genie called Telangana out of the bottle creating backlash from all over India clamouring for more smaller states. While Sardar K M Panicker conceived the language based new states in 1957,this concept is under threat now endangering the main fabric of Federalism in India as the division of states based on language alone neglected the economic viability of some of the new states . What will the future hold for India?.50 plus states in the year 2020 or a cohesive handful of regions in a truly federal structure with a small core at the centre? Do our young leaders representing 60 percent of the population below 30 years of age now have the foresight , guts and tenacity to reverse the HUBRIS that has befallen our great country?.Let us hope saner elements take over soon. We owe this to our people.
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