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Perspective
By Pankaj Deka*
As military tensions go up in Eastern Ladakh, India is reclaiming its true civilisation. India is taking up offensive defence as the fulcrum of our military strategy and giving up the age-old policy of being magnanimous towards your enemy.
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India has activated the Lalitaditya Muktapida mode in Eastern Ladakh and given up on the Prithviraj Chauhan syndrome and dictating matters on the de facto Indo-Tibetan border, rather than mirroring Chinese deployment. And the Chinese have been taken by surprise when SFF, (the Establishment 22 ) a covert paramilitary commando force that recruits heavily from the Tibetan exiles living in India seized a Chinese camp in the surrounding hills of Pangong Tso lake. The Chinese troops were suddenly confronted by the Indian troops outflanking them from dominating heights in the Southern Pangong Tso Lake, merely hundreds of metres away.
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The Chinese are considerably shaken. The Chinese Embassy claims that India illegally violated the consensus reached in multiple, bilateral talks and that India transgressed the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on 31th August.
But the Indian Army maintains that the heights taken over by the Indian soldiers are Indian Territory. If Chinese soldiers want to assert their so-called territorial rights, they are welcome to come and fight it out with the rugged SFF troops that mostly consist of tough Tibetan highlanders.
Till not very long ago, Indian policymakers and so-called strategists used to weigh the practicality of a military manoeuvre in terms of its likeability in China. If it was believed that a particular move would ‘annoy’ China, it was given up. But things have changed. Can we say India today has no qualms about asserting itself, even if it means hurting China’s sentiments?
Over the past six years, India has time and again gone behind enemy lines in Pakistan to inflict damage on terror infrastructure considering Vidur niti – “Shatthe Shaatthym Samaacharet”. Which means tit for tat or eye for an eye “.Whether it was the surgical strikes in 2016 or the Balakot airstrikes last year!
Today India is hitting hard and deep into the enemy territory, if provoked!
The spirit of Bhagwan Shri Krishna’s teachings in his ultimate message to Arjuna in the statement “uttishtanthu kounteya, yudhhaya krutha nishchaya” advising Arjuna to fight and not be timid had been lost on modern India for decades. India needed to unshackle itself from its status-quoist mindset to that of Dharmika Kshatram, in certain circumstances implying rightful aggression.
We don’t need to look at lessons and experiences from across the globe. We need to sincerely tap the universal and timeless wisdom bestowed on us by our ancient civilization.
Economy of Pakistan will be destroyed,’ Imran Khan cries out as India gets set to reveal money trail of Pulwama attack to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – an intergovernmental organisation founded in 1989 on the initiative of the G7 to develop policies to combat money laundering.
China is no exception and it is now being given the Pakistan treatment by the India. But there is a long march ahead. India needs to catch up to the world investing on Research & Development. Coming to our defence capabilities too, little has been achieved ad much more is in the line up — from creating India’s own state of art air defence missile system like Russian S-400, to building snow huts especially in the mountain range with cloths for the winter seasons, state of art air linear electronic accelerator system and reviving and re-inventinting biodefense technologies/systems, nuclear biological defence systems. Already on Monday Indian scientists successfully test hypersonic cruise missiles system and this is a major milestone.
India needs to inflect —
Agratah Chaturo Vedah
Pristhtah Sasharam Dhanuh,
Idam Bramham Idam Kshatram
Shapadapi Sharadapi !
(Parashuram, who is well-versed with the four Vedas and sports the bow and arrow upon his back, who is the one who has the radiance of both the Brahman and the Kshatriya,will destroy evildoers either with a curse or with an arrow).
*The writer is a Guwahati-based social entrepreneur working towards drawing public attention on United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in India. The views published here are personal.
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