Wednesday, December 17, 2008
India vs England...........a changing perspective.
Yesterday the comment of David LLyod had made me to write this blog. When Tendulkar made his century he said "Mumbai has won .Mumbai has shown the world..............Mumbai responds............". There was not a singal sign of defeat on this ex-English cricketer . Was it purposfully or just an act of consolation? England captain Pieterson's statement to tour India to answer the coward act of terrorists, has some meaning which we should realise. The double standard of England to tour India but not to tour Pakistan need to be seen through a different glass which shows the act of solidarity in the time of crisis. Observations of the western media indicate that now UK and USA are on a line of thinking that Pakistan is a terrorist country. Gorden Brown's recent statement about the terrorists of UK that 75% of them have their roots in Pakistan. It seems that after Mumbai hijack the western perspective have changed and now they are realising that its not the freedom struggle of Kashmir but a terrorist act. Will this bring a collective action of all countries against terrorists as it has brought after 9/11?
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ur question is very deep santhosh...nd i dont have a answer to ur q as i'm not a geopolitics expert...
but i wud like to comment on some of the enabling features and challenges tat terrorism has thrown up..
1) it has taught nations to think beyond narrow nation-state boundaries. both world war 1 and war 2 were based on geo-political conditions. but if v have to master terrorism, conventional thinkin wont suffice...its more of an ideological war. but the question is, can v defeat violence (terrorism) by violence(better army etc). i dont think so, rather violence breeds violence. so, the approach towards fightin terrorism shud shift to dialogue along with minimum level of violence..
2) how can we remove the inter-woven nature of religion from terrorism...this is the greatest challenge..wat is really happenin is, islam is being equated with terrorism through propaganda. now how do we seperate the 2. nd then how to market this seperateness. i believe this is the most profound marketin question in todays world..
i dint reply to ur q, but i thought the issues given above shud also b examined as a part of the issue tat has been raised..
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