Editor,
India’s greatest challenge is dealing with Pak-China evil nexus in recent times. The country should continue to work on the economy, building stable infrastructure and technology platform within the nation, keep developing strong diplomatic relationship with other countries including major global powers and strengthening and modernizing the army, navy and air force. These cannot be achieved overnight and hence the government will need to focus on this constantly. In spite the failures of Indian democracy in reaching every corner of this vast and dynamic nation and to cater to all the people particularly the rural poor, failures in giving justice to the poor, high levels of corruption, political instability, insurgency issues and procrastination, the world’s largest democracy has been able to keep together as one nation and made significant progress in various realms. Of course this is not sufficient and more needs to be done than has been achieved. India needs to remember that the repeated attempts of destabilizing the country and terror attacks are only attempts of enemies of India like Pakistan and China to stop India’s economic progress and global ascent as a super power. As the world is silently watching and no one is really going to come to help India, the nation and her people have to stand up to their enemies on their own. If India continues to have the impressive economic growth rate she has achieved recently and attracts more freeing investments to her shores, the nation is only going to be stronger and formidable in the coming future. Differences like sharing water among states, inter and intra- state rivalries are only going to weaken the framework of this great nation and Indian civilization. Everyone has to come forward and play their part and not just the ruling government and the army to protect the integrity and security of the nation.
Pakistan and China will continue to poke India but this country needs to protect her inner assets with all her strengths. The attacks on vulnerable army bases could never have happened without covert support and intelligence leaks from deep inside the Indian armed forces. The nation should ask for the resignation of the failed Indian Army Chief for his repeated failures in giving security to his fellow soldiers, forget about the security of the ordinary civilians. A nation cannot be militarily governed by sitting in air conditioned chambers in New Delhi. I barely see reports of the Army Chief travelling across the nation other than doing press conference and providing lip service. If the highest army official is so incapable of handling the pressures of protecting the nation, the impacts on the ground forces will be considerable and alarming from the perspective of long team security of the nation. There is no attempt to identify the traitors within the army, navy or air force for leaking sensitive information to the enemies of the nation. It seems someone in high position is protecting such traitors operating within the armed forces and to my sincere belief these are not ordinary jawans or sailors but high ranking army, naval and air force officials. India has to be prepared for the next attack and the first step is removing an inefficient Army Chief and replacing him with a more capable individual dedicated towards national security. If the person at the top of the organization is high performing and dedicated , the whole organization will be transformed, else the nation has to think of deep losses in the future. Non-performing officials have to be removed immediately for the long term future of the nation. This is the motto in every developed nation and India needs to adopt that.
Yours etc.,
Saikat Kumar Basu
Lethbridge AB Canada T1J 4B3