Pressure has been developing in the Himalayas along one of the world's highest land borders, with New Delhi and Beijing both blaming the other for violating the Line of Actual Control (LAC) that divides the two. The territorial status has for some time been questioned, emitting into various minor military clashes and diplomatic eyebrow-raising, since a wicked war between the nations in 1962. Recently, top military commanders met to cool-off the rising political mercury levels in Ladakh. Indeed, even today, exactly what happened on the ground, in the exceptionally mobilized locale, stays indistinct because of the role of media. Media on both sides has focused on propaganda and warmongering that has hindered the de-escalation of the matter. Chinese media's broadcast of People's Liberation Army (PLA) moves in the locale -with planes and trucks loaded with troops - in what state media portrayed as "exhibiting China's ability of ...
Both, in the title of my post and in the current political situation in India, the "Centre” is not in the centre. And the reasons for that are many, but the most profound of them is the state of ignorance, that “Centre” is founding itself in. The leader of the “Centre”, of course is Congress. But INC is a bunch of ignorant and puzzled politicians (I am deliberately not using the word “leaders”) as they don’t know what to do and which way to go. I know some of you may think, “But that’s what centre does, it sticks to the middle and doesn’t go for the extremes”. But that’s not the point, as Congress is right now like a fish out of water and is surviving on the nitpicking of the Government, lacking any substantial issues to come forward with. Wherever we see an issue raised by the others, Congress seems to pounce like a hungry desperate cat on it and spoils it for others also. Now, mentioning Congress alone in the topic can’t be called as fair means of r...