More humiliations

There are many small nuggets of issues that has significance but goes unnoticed.

First let us talk about the olympic torch relay in Delhi. We shout from the rooftops that India is the largest democracy in the world. We also send a huge contingent to every olympic games (well! the ratio of officials to athletes is skewed at 80:20) without a hope of getting a medal, but all the while telling that it is the spirit of participation and olympics that matters. Can someone in our government please tell me where the hell this Olympic spirit was when the torch was kept in a 5 star hotel and the relay took place on Rajpath surrounded by 17ooo security men with NO AUDIENCE and even people working in the office nearby asked to shut the windows facing the Rajpath. All to please a country who has at every turn humiliated us and sees us as an enemy. The torch was allowed a free run in many other countries without this security tantrums. Is not the right to protest enshrined in our constitution? Why should the Tibetans and those who oppose China's policies be shackled? What would have happened if a few tibetans have protested? I will tell you-Nothing. What India has lost is our self respect, dignity and right to be called an independant nation. We have still not overcome the subserviant mentality. It is also why we will never become a great nation.

It is also why our President was humiliated in Brazil and Mexico on her recent trip. Personally I loathe the fact that Pratibha Patil, a sycophant and a cheat, is holding the most important office in the country. But that doesn't diminish the fact that she is the President of India. When she is slighted, it is as if all self respecting Indians are slighted.

In Brazil, she was to address a house of parliamentarians that is 81 strong. Only 8 turned up.

Worse was to follow in Mexico. The opposition left wing parties boycotted and stalled the house which she was to address (though not on any issue pertaining to India) forcing the cancellation of her speech altogether.

Do we need any more proof to understand how other nations view us. This is what happens when the rulers dont have a value system, conviction of their beliefs and have no strategic plan.

I can but cry!