Sach Ka Samna - My View

Why to target Sach ka Samna alone? Its irrelevant whether polygraph test is right or wrong. People appearing in the show believing it to be decider and that is all. If Sach KA Samna is against the ethos of Indian culture, so was the "K" series serials. Those serial also showed adultery and treachery. If Sach Ka Samna is bad for asking questions which may not be suitable for universal viewer ship, why there are advertisements of contraceptives and condom at the prime time shows? BJP is demanding non-broadcasting of such programs where its own leader, on record during Budget discussion, claims that extra income tax benefit proposed by the Finance minister is not enough to earn him even a bottle of WHISKY. Should we go by the diktat of these hypocrites? I am not certifying Sach Ka Samna as a very good show but one really considers reality shows are not of good standard, one should not target a single program by claiming that is against Indian culture. Let the good sprit prevail.

Foreign influence on India’s foreign policy

After defeating the Greek warrior Selucus, when Chandragupta tied knot with Helen, daughter of Selucus, Chanakya vehemently opposed to recognize Helen as the Queen. His reason for disagreement was simple as he believed that a person not born and brought up in a country, can not be absolute loyal to that country. And, may be, that is why states like U.S.A and Canada do not allow a person, who is not a citizen of that state by birth, to hold the highest office of the state.

In India, we do not have any legal provision to disallow a person, who is not a citizen of our country by birth, from holding such office and that is why person like Sonia Gandhi can easily dream to become the Prime Minister of the nation with mere experience and qualification of being from a particular family until awakened by the then President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam who stood in her way to become the Prime Minister when she manipulated the numbers and submitted a false document, containing names of MPs supporting her, to the President in her desperate bid to head the nation.

The act of the then President and the support the President received across the society made Sonia Gandhi realized that nation would not accept her as the head of the nation and this made her put Dr. Manmohan Singh as the Prime Ministerial candidate. The choice of Dr. Singh ahead of other senior Congress leaders was also a tactical move by Sonia Gandhi as Dr. Singh did not have any support base of his own which, after some time, could make him defy the orders of 10 Janapath. Dr. Singh ended up in being nothing but a puppet in the hands of Sonia Gandhi.

The point Chanakya laid down 2300 years ago, is turning out to be relevant even in today’s date. The recent acts by the Indian Government are vindicating the rules promulgated by Chanakya. The signing of the Climate Pact at the Major Economic Forum (MEF) by Dr. Singh, against the policy endorsed so far by the Government of India at different forum, and that too in Italy, from where our de facto Prime Minister belongs, ushers a thought in my mind if, now a days, our foreign policies are being formulated in India or Italy. In global environmental scenario, India’s per capita CO2 emissions are only 1.2 MT where USA and Canada contributes 20.4 MT & 20.0 MT respectively. Even in the Doha summit, India was very much against signing such pact along with Brazil as it believed the clauses of the pact to be full of discrepancies. Eyebrows have been raised in the sections of officials, who, till date, lobbied against the pact, are now forced to swallow the bitter pill. The initiative taken by the Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has proved enough to satisfy our Prime Minister to sign the pact but I am still left with doubt whether Prime Minister of Italy or our de facto Italian Prime Minister is actually concerned regarding Indian citizens.

My doubts remained no more doubts and turned into fear when days after signing the Climate Pact against the policy of the state, Dr. Singh, again, signed in the joint declaration with his Pakistan counterpart, Yousaf Raza Gilani, de-linking terrorism from the resumption of dialogue. The declaration specifically stated, “action on terrorism should not be linked to the composite dialogue process and these should not be backtracked.” It means, no matter Pakistan send people like Azmal Kasav to India or patron criminals like Dawood Ibrahim or Hafiz Saeed or indulges its force to cross line of control for another Kargil, India will always speak the language of peace and tolerance. Soon after signing the joint declaration and briefing the press, Dr. Singh did a total volte face for damage control and insisted “composite dialogue can not resume until and unless terrorists are brought to book.” If we are to believe Dr. Singh words, we are deceived by his acts and vice versa.

The chain of incidents has led me to believe that India, this time, may also tender its moral consent to sign CTBT once USA Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton concludes her discussion with Indian officials. After all, now-a-days, India is not governed by the interests of the Indians. Had that been the case, we would not have cast our vote in favour of a person who took more than 10 years to apply for the citizenship of this country since her marriage.