It is alarming that a group at the University of California, Berkeleys business school is toiling on a project to create a policy and protocol framework for protecting peoples rights in situations of internal armed conflict and mass violence in India. Which is amazing, considering that there is less violence and conflict in India than in any of the countries mentioned above, and that, anyway, there has been low-level insurgencies in India for decades. This leads me to wonder, does the Berkeley group know something that the rest of us dont? Here is also the surprising and widespread white noise in support of the Aam Aadmi Party by such establishment stalwarts as The New York Times and The Economist, among others. It is hard, prima facie, to believe the Americans would genuinely embrace a self-proclaimed anarchist group with far-Left views on almost everything. Nevertheless, there they are, with their front foundations merrily giving away all sorts of awards and money to the AAP. This fits in with an observed tactic on the part of the West to encourage leftist, nihilist dissident groups in other countries. It is rather evident by now that a Narendra Modi-led government would not be particularly easy to bribe or manipulate -- it does appear that he neither forgives nor forgets -- and that it would be, as with Shinzo Abes administration in Japan, prone to care about the national interest, not Foreigns. For details, please read on: Laxman Sharma m.rediff/news/column/rajeev-srinivasan-the-time-will-come-when-america-can-dictate-to-india/20140303.htm
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 00:18:13 +0000