The best way to know the self is feeling oneself at the moments of reckoning. The feeling of being alone, just with your senses, may lead you to think more consciously. More and more of such moments may sensitize ‘you towards you’, towards others. We become regular with introspection and retrospection. We get ‘the’ gradual connect to the higher self we may name Spirituality or God or just a Humane Conscious. We tend to get a rhythm again in life. We need to learn the art of being lonely in crowd while being part of the crowd. A multitude of loneliness in mosaic of relations! One needs to feel it severally, with conscience, before making it a way of life. One needs to live several such lonely moments. One needs to live severallyalone.

Friday 2 January 2015

OBAMA’S INDIA VISIT, PAKISTANI RULING ELITE’S ANTI-INDIA MINDSET AND RECENT SURGE IN ATTEMPTED TERROR ACTS

Pakistan sponsored terrorism in India pushed by Pakistan’s terror designs for India - it may be one of the evergreen subjects to be discussed on media platforms but in the prevailing geopolitical circumstances – with US President Barack Obama’s scheduled visit later this month – and with recent surge in terror threats and terror alerts – it has found a heightened relevance.

Pakistan has always been frustrated with and thus irritated on India and Barack Obama’s India visit as the chief guest of the Republic Day event on January 26 has touched the nervous cords again.

Being seen as a diplomatic coup by Narendra Modi, it only worsened the matters for Pakistan when US declared that Obama would not be visiting Pakistan while coming to South Asia, an unexpected letdown given the past precedents. And Obama’s flat refusal to Pakistan’s prostrated demands of Obama’s Pakistan visit only rubbed salt in the wound.

Further humiliation came with the American demand that Pakistan needed to mend its terror-infested courtyard decisively before ‘requesting’ a US presidential visit, something that Pakistan simply cannot afford, even if it itself is a big victim of insurgency with thousands killed in terror strikes each year, for state-sponsored terrorism has become the most important tool to feed the anti-India psychosis ruling the mindsets of the Pakistani elite.

Now, even if US is placating Pakistan with aid for its ‘forced’ cooperation to act against the ‘bad Taliban’ active in Afghanistan and AfPak region, the US presidential visit to Pakistan is not going to happen in the near future, as Pakistan is not going to take on ‘it’s good Taliban’. And as long as Pakistan continues to follow this policy of audacious bonhomie with the ‘good terrorism’ that it mentors, Pakistanis cannot expect a ‘relatively’ terror free society. After all, the ‘bad Taliban’ of today are the ‘good Taliban’ of yesterday.

Add the psychological implications of Obama’s India visit to the perennial anti-India hysteria of the Pakistani elite, and it makes for a perfect recipe for them to push their anti-India agenda with renewed efforts, to vent their frustration, to feed their false sense of becoming at par with India, to save their faces.

And if they could destabilize India – when India has the world’s attention with Obama’s upcoming India visit and Obama saying he means business with this visit - perpetrating a big terror strike or a series of orchestrated terror attacks to the extent that it could potentially threaten Obama’s visit or could even cancel it – it will be a real coup for the Pakistani government and Pakistani elite.

The recent surge in terror related rumours, specific terror alerts, terror raids and busts, arrests, low intensity and IED blasts, open threats by terrorist groups like the one for January 26, or today’s news about December 31's incident off Gujarat coast where a Pakistani boat was blown by the people manning it when was intercepted by the Indian Coast Guard can be seen in the context of the anti-India mindset of the Pakistani ruling elite.

The satisfactory reflection on these developments so far, for India and Indians, has been the fact that the synergy of the Indian Intelligence and the security agencies has been able to thwart any major Pakistan-sponsored terror incident on Indian soil so far (in the recent past obviously), including the big achievement of ensuring peaceful elections in Jammu & Kashmir with highest ever poll percentage.

But, then, don’t we, the Indians, need to have this ‘synergy’ always working like this? 

 ©/IPR: Santosh Chaubey - http://severallyalone.blogspot.com/