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.

Wednesday, 9 December 2015

INDIA AND PAKISTAN ARE TALKING AGAIN

So, on a non-rhetorical note, India and Pakistan have decided to resume their bilateral dialogue again - that has had a fractured history so far - with many more lows and few, standalone highs.

And away from all pointers of debate and who said what in the past and who did what - it is the best possible option available for both countries - because it suits their populations back homes - two populations that were one before 1947.

It is the best thing that can happen to India and Pakistan - increased people to people to contact - revisiting the shared cultural interests that still define life in every city of India - and a 'peaceful' Pakistan can immensely benefit from it.

The present geopolitical balance where economy is the most important parameter to weigh one's share in the 'group of most effective voices' on world affairs, Pakistan is nowhere near to India. India is a major world economy now and is poised to become a global power.

But that only makes for the case that it engages in peace process with Pakistan - to synergise its efforts in building an economy that is already the most preferred destination of every global outfit - and thus building a society that becomes an example. That one is a massive task with long term goals and require decades of continued nation building.

And doing so, engaging with India in the peace process and looking for solutions to the issues that create problems, will ultimately help India - its fledgling economy - increasing radicalization of its society - and its  crumbling national integrity.

Even if Pakistan employs all its resources and wages a war till its last remnant , it will not be able to take Kashmir, or for that matter, any other part from India. This realization is already there. The need is to act on it. The need in Pakistan is to utilize the resources for nation building that it is wasting in creating troubles for India - a huge pool of resources that can prove very vital for Pakistani society.

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