http://desicritics.org/ Superior South Asian bloggers on Culture, Media, Politics, Sport, Business, and Technology. en Copyright 2006 by the authors Mon, 1 Oct 2007 01:08:00 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss BC custom software http://desicritics.org/2007/09/28/002628.php#comment-299390 First, let us get our govt to fix the mess our country is in, before we attempt at fixing other nations. Everyday, driving through Bangalore, I witness the almost complete collapse of the civic administration. In the meantime, there is now a battle going on between the current CM and the deputy CM over transfer of power. I wouldn't rule out bandhs/clashes over this issue. Unfortunate that even the so-called intellectual peoples' hearts bleed over some distant land, while they don't seem to give a rat's ass about the country their own children would grow up in. 299390@desicritics.org Mon, 1 Oct 2007 01:08:00 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/09/28/002628.php#comment-299363 In one e-mail from Sunday times, there is a grave discord among the military junta in Mynamar, which indirectly speaks in volumes that their hold on military rule is waning day by day. One group of the junta may turn against the former comrades, and that will signal the end of their ruthless rule, and the citizens will be free. We may have the news, without much delay so that we can rejoice with all the freedom loving people around the world. I pray that it will happen by next week itself. 299363@desicritics.org Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:24:28 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/09/28/002628.php#comment-299269 Our politicians ahve been caught on the wrong foot again. They think Mayanmar is a distant issue, bu it is not, it is as hot as Pakistan or Bangladesh or Sri Lanka.We share borders with Mayanmar.We must help them stabilise and help democracy be restored there. What are our politicians afraid of? I think our politics today lacks coherrence.There is no coordinated effort. 299269@desicritics.org Sun, 30 Sep 2007 05:56:21 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/09/28/002628.php#comment-299241 Mr Mathew thanks for you comments. India foreign policy is best suited to discuss only after we know who wins the next mid-poll election. 299241@desicritics.org Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:02:19 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/09/28/002628.php#comment-299074 Mr. Rajen Nair, great article and every decent human being has the same feeling as you expressed toward the freedom fighting people of Myanmar. The people of Myanmar will be free one day very soon, it does't matter whether our motherland has any gut to stand firm againt an unethical military regime. From our memory, those marches in Eastern Europe were not gone, if they got freedom from the clutches of a far mighty communist imperialism; please remember, the people of Myanmar will be free one day very soon. When we read Indian history, it is a chronicle of luckwarm reponses and jellyfish might. When Tibet was taken by the Chinese, Nehru didn't say a word of protest, on the other hand, he took Goa as if defeating an empire. How to define Indian foreign policy? 299074@desicritics.org Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:09:42 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/09/28/002628.php#comment-298842 It's especially sad when India is that country's neighbor, their histories are so mingled, and India itself used non-violent protests to gain its own independence. 298842@desicritics.org Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:12:15 EDT http://desicritics.org/2007/09/28/002628.php#comment-298819 It is really sad when a country like India, which claims to be a great democracy fails to stand by a neighboring country where the democratic process is being stifled. I watched Karan Thapar's show the other night and was glad to find that at least some of our top politicians, among others I.K. Gujral, have come out openly against India's silence on the matter. 298819@desicritics.org Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:25:00 EDT