"No Thanks! World"

Why am I not amazed when I read things like this piece below:

From the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Series II, Volume 29, Minutes of meeting with Soviet Leaders, Moscow, 22 June 1955, page 231, here are the minutes of the conversation between Jawaharlal Nehru and Soviet Premier Marshal Bulganin, as quoted in Claude Arpi's Born in Sin: The Panchsheel Agreement (Mittal Publications, Delhi, 2004, ISBN 81-7099-974-X):

'Bulganin: While we are discussing the general international situation and reducing tension, we propose suggesting at a later stage India's inclusion as the sixth member of the Security Council.

Nehru: Perhaps Bulganin knows that some people in the USA have suggested that India should replace China in the Security Council. This is to create trouble between us and China. We are, of course, wholly opposed to it. Further, we are opposed to pushing ourselves forward to occupy certain positions because that may itself create difficulties and India might itself become a subject of controversy. If India is to be admitted to the Security Council it raises the question of the revision of the Charter of the UN. We feel that this should not be done till the question of China's admission and possibly of others is first solved. I feel that we should first concentrate on getting China admitted.'

Here we have the 'architect of India' sqandering away an opportunity to put India on a fast track to international identity building. What is it about our politicans that they feel the need to demonstrate an assinine sence of seudo-secularim / seudo-subservience?

We've come a long way alright.. from the days of Chanakya, the creator of political science, to Lalu Prasad Yadav, the creator of political insanity.

If I had a penny for every gaff our politicians made, I wouldn't be writing this blog.. I'd probably be somewhere enjoying a residual income enough to retire several generations.

Regarding India's stand on the ongoing 'discussion' of permanant UN Security Council membership, I think I strongly agree with Rajiv Srinivasan's article in Rediff.( http://us.rediff.com/news/2005/may/18rajeev.htm )