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     Kindal Comedian Username: Kindal Post Number: 1692 Registered: 09-2007 Posted From: 122.169.169.214 Rating: N/A |
The Kashmir war saved the Indian Army from being scrapped, seems strange? Well, a biography of Major General AA âJickâ Rudra of the Indian Army by Major General DK âMontyâ Palit claims so. According to the book, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru blew his top when Lt General Sir Robert Lockhart, the first commander in chief of India took a strategic plan for a Government directive on defence policy. âShortly after independence, General Lockhart as the army chief took a strategic plan to the prime minister, asking for a government directive on the defence policy. He came back to Jickâs office shell-shocked. When asked what happened, he replied, The PM took one look at my paper and blew his top. âRubbish! Total rubbish!â he shouted. âWe donât need a defence plan. Our policy is ahimsa (non-violence). We foresee no military threats. Scrap the army! The police are good enough to meet our security needsâ,â http://varnam.nationalinterest.in/2006/08/nehru_we_dont_need _a_defence_p/ vellamma moorkhatvam desanni sanka nookinchee avidealu eella blood lonee undi anukunta  For in India, Bhakti or what may be called the path of devotion or hero-worship, plays a part in its politics unequalled in magnitude by the part it plays in the politics of any other country in the world. Bhakti in religion may be a road to the salvation of the soul. But in politics, Bhakti or hero-worship is a sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship. |
