My favorite fable about human nature is like this: A scorpion requests a frog to carry him across a river. Frog is afraid that he may get bit. The scorpion says that if I bite you then both us will drown. Frog relented. Halfway through the river, the scorpion bit the frog. While drowning, the frog asked: Why did you bite me? Now both of us are going to die. The scorpion said: I can’t help it. This is my nature.
Whether a stable Pakistan is in Indian interest or not, seems to be a trendy topic for discussion. There is a very strong constituency in India which favors helping Pakistan out. It started off with Gandhi and has continued through the decades with the likes of Mulayam Yadav and Achuthanandan. Of course their motives are extremely ignoble.
My strong belief is that the due to decades of brainwashing, the Pakistanis want nothing short of Balkanization of India. Due to centuries of brainwashing they hate everything Hindu. These sentiments are even more pronounced (if that is possible) in the real decision makers i.e. the Army. Now a Pakistan with limited resources is hell bent on destroying us. Imagine what they will do when they have real resources.
In fact it is very arrogant of us to even discuss this. Pakistan’s stability and prosperity is not in Indian hands. Hell even our stability and prosperity is not in our hands (it is in the hands of Bholenath!). With that in mind, I tend to think that our time would be better used if we fortify our security and create economic opportunities across the country so we can move forward as a country rather than regionally.
Following is an article on this topic. I have had the opportunity of communicating with Dr. Ganguly. He does a good job of discussing this rather vacuous topic.
"Indian policymakers are again discussing if a stable Pakistan is a good thing. Pakistan’s internal politics hold the key.In the aftermath of yet another abortive attempt to reach a rapprochement with Pakistan this July, a time-honored debate has again been resurrected in New Delhi’s foreign and security policy circles.The debate revolves around the question of whether or not it’s in India’s interests to have a stable, secure and prosperous Pakistan. Yet the question in its present form misses the point. The real issue isn’t whether or not such an outcome is desirable. Instead, the more pertinent issue for India’s policymakers is to establish how such a Pakistani state would behave toward India. Would it be a benign and fair-minded neighbor willing to cooperate on a host of outstanding differences? Or would it remain truculent as ever, determined to remain at odds with its neighbor? "
The rest of the article can be read at:
Whether a stable Pakistan is in Indian interest or not, seems to be a trendy topic for discussion. There is a very strong constituency in India which favors helping Pakistan out. It started off with Gandhi and has continued through the decades with the likes of Mulayam Yadav and Achuthanandan. Of course their motives are extremely ignoble.
My strong belief is that the due to decades of brainwashing, the Pakistanis want nothing short of Balkanization of India. Due to centuries of brainwashing they hate everything Hindu. These sentiments are even more pronounced (if that is possible) in the real decision makers i.e. the Army. Now a Pakistan with limited resources is hell bent on destroying us. Imagine what they will do when they have real resources.
In fact it is very arrogant of us to even discuss this. Pakistan’s stability and prosperity is not in Indian hands. Hell even our stability and prosperity is not in our hands (it is in the hands of Bholenath!). With that in mind, I tend to think that our time would be better used if we fortify our security and create economic opportunities across the country so we can move forward as a country rather than regionally.
Following is an article on this topic. I have had the opportunity of communicating with Dr. Ganguly. He does a good job of discussing this rather vacuous topic.
"Indian policymakers are again discussing if a stable Pakistan is a good thing. Pakistan’s internal politics hold the key.In the aftermath of yet another abortive attempt to reach a rapprochement with Pakistan this July, a time-honored debate has again been resurrected in New Delhi’s foreign and security policy circles.The debate revolves around the question of whether or not it’s in India’s interests to have a stable, secure and prosperous Pakistan. Yet the question in its present form misses the point. The real issue isn’t whether or not such an outcome is desirable. Instead, the more pertinent issue for India’s policymakers is to establish how such a Pakistani state would behave toward India. Would it be a benign and fair-minded neighbor willing to cooperate on a host of outstanding differences? Or would it remain truculent as ever, determined to remain at odds with its neighbor? "
The rest of the article can be read at:
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