The result of this can be seen in our daily life. Strong value system, tolerence, democratic fundamentals, freedom of speech, fierce independance and so on. We were timid for a long time due to colonization first and later due to below average economic conditions. Now the situation has changed. We are 60 years into independance, economy is booming and the new generation of indians are admired all over the world for their hard work, creativity and work ethic. The world has realized that India is emerging as a superpower.
Power comes with responsibility. Unfortunately our political leaders do not understand this. Though we crave for international recognition, we fail to stand up and be counted on any major issue. We are allowing others to ride roughshode over us. Our foreign policy is highly reactive than proactive.
Shall give you two examples. Tiny Bangladesh, which was created by us and which is one of the least developed country in the world and hardly having a decent army to boast of has been irritating us for a long time. They are pushing illegal immigrants to india by millions, have made repeated incursions to our territory and are even occupying a large chunk of our land. And despite boasting of one of the largest army in the world and nuclear arsenal to boot, what do our government do - nothing!. Our government dont even have an iota of self respect. What a shame!
The second case is that of Tibetan protests. True we have signed an agreement with China on Tibet long time back. But China has many a time violated the spirit of the agreement. They have occupied our territory, have not recognised Arunachal Pradesh and have been a thorn in our side for a long long time. I am not saying that we should support Tibetan issue. We have a ridiculous situation of being a lapdog to China, dancing to their tunes on the torch relay and even threatening Dalai Lama. The least we could have done is to stand up to China, look them in their eye and tell them off saying we are a democracy and we will allow peaceful protests. It is our duty to protect the torch and we wont allow chinese guards to guard the torch. Are we not capable of doing it? Let me give you a scenario. If there are protests and these chinese guards beat up the protesters, will India dare to take action against them.
Our Government is spineless and has no sense of self respect. When will we ever get a leader whom we can be proud of ,who will inspire us and make us a world power?
