Mr Modi’s UK visit: over the top

[magudi]

I really cannot understand British's urge to show superiority complex wrt to India. It is not that I approve Modi's strategy of using his foreign trips for his domestic political gain. But it is not the British's right to question Modi, but it is India's, and neither is Modi a criminal as Indian law has given him a clean chit. British need to respect India's law and stop chiding Modi's human right record.

How does Modi's UK trip yield domestic political gain ?If anything BJP's recent electoral defeats have shown foreign policy hardly matters

 

[Great Sachin]

Another devastating foreign visit of nirander mody brought Paris attack.. world sud ban on Mody's travel to world...

I thought he was in UK not in France....when he traveled France nothing happened...

Did i hurt u calling a terrorist is terrorist who is also a jinx, inauspicious or sinister.. think about it..

no I feel good...because he is hurting you so much that you hate him

 

[unbiasedopinion]

If I remember my history lessons correctly, East India company enslaved India by sweet talks, by buttering the kings/queens of kingdoms of India. Hope Modi does not get flattened by just the sweet talks.

Second, if Modi can make UK to apologies for its atrocity done to Indian people under British India, if Modi can bring back looted riches back to India, and if Modi can bring back the kohinoor back to India, then definitely Modi will be remembered as a leader for centuries to come.

 

[GURU DUTT]

If I remember my history lessons correctly, East India company enslaved India by sweet talks, by buttering the kings/queens of kingdoms of India. Hope Modi does not get flattened by just the sweet talks.

Second, if Modi can make UK to apologies for its atrocity done to Indian people under British India, if Modi can bring back looted riches back to India, and if Modi can bring back the kohinoor back to India, then definitely Modi will be remembered as a leader for centuries to come.

your wrong on both accounts

1. east india company ensalved indians as muslim nawabs and mughals gave them too much wieghtage in return of protection from ever agressive sikhs and marathas who even after there losses to nadir shah and ahmed shah abdali rose to power again and by some greedy hindu rajas who gave british east india company entry to save there kinddoms from marathas and sikhs

secondlly what NaMo is doing for india is that he is bringing much needed talent back and investment in some core industrial sectors and some defnce and strategik partenrships and thats stands by judging all his foriegn tours cause susutained growth can onli be possible with employment genration and strong defence and internal law and order situation , infra growth , cleanliness and corruption free enviorment but pseodo sikulars onli want to focus on all the wrong things just to stay releven as for some recent defetes in delhi and gujrat even NaMo needs to know that he cant let RSS dictate terms to his ambitions for india and its growth and rien in motor mouths before they destroy every thing he has worked so hard for

 

[INDIAISM]

Long ago there were two countries whose destinies were intertwined by history. Britain’s rule helped make India into a modern nation. India’s wealth and military manpower sustained Britain as a superpower. Admiration and rationality, as well as condescension and racism, characterised a complex relationship which seemed so intimate that many expected it to continue in some form after the sun set on empire.

But those two countries no longer exist. The still mighty Britain that emerged from the war against Germany and Japan has become the modest and puzzled United Kingdom of today, while in India the valuable, if very different, legacies of Gandhi and Nehru have lost potency as political change has brought to the fore men and ideas marginal in 1947, when independence was achieved. Given this alteration in circumstances, it is odd that so much hyperbole, on both sides, should accompany the Indian prime minister’s visit to London.

As Narendra Modi and David Cameron leap from crag to crag of ever more outrageous flattery, one might wish that the affair could have been pitched on a somewhat lower level. Mr Modi insists this is “a huge moment for our two nations”, while Mr Cameron, announcing that 2017 will be a UK-India Year of Culture, claims that “the great partnership between India and the UK extends beyond economic ties to the boards of the Bard and the beaches of Bollywood”. This image of a relationship cemented by cricket, Shakespeare, Madame Tussauds and a joint liking for a good curry is not entirely false, but it is misleading.

The mundane truth is that this trip is basically about seeking advantage in the day-to-day politics of both countries. Mr Modi has been whirling around the world in the 18 months since he took office seeking to woo the 35 million-strong Indian diaspora. He wants their support, and to attract more of their investment and skills back to India. But he especially wants to stand tall in the eyes of the public at home who see him dazzling Indian audiences abroad – audiences that, because of their distance from the politics of the subcontinent, are much less concerned about the issues that preoccupy his critics and opponents at home. He is building up brand India, and they respond to that.

They simply want to welcome a leader who is so loudly blowing the trumpet for the network of communities of Indian origin that girdles the world. Those with business connections also want to gain points that could be very useful later by helping now with the funding and organisation. So Mr Modi includes what is essentially a political rally in most of his trips, packing out Madison Square Garden in New York, the cricket ground in Dubai, andtoday Wembley stadium. The people who listen to him don’t have Indian votes, but there are votes in them for Mr Modi all the same. These successes on the foreign stage help obscure setbacks and controversies in India, like recent electoral defeat in Bihar and the anger over his lukewarm response to the murder of a Muslim accused of eating beef.

This latter is symptomatic of the unreconstructed Hindu nationalism that, not far under the surface and in spite of his references to Gandhi, makes him so different from earlier Indian leaders, even if the Gujarat massacre, where over 1,000 people, mainly Muslims, died, had not been on his record. Whatever the nature of his role there, it happened on his watch. That ought to greatly moderate any welcome offered to him in the UK. But the Cameron government doesn’t want to open that book, because there are votes in this for them as well. They want to erode Labour’s command of the Indian electorate and pull in more support for the Conservatives, particularly as British Indians become more prosperous and potentially inclined for class reasons to move to the right.

There are also the usual trade and investment objectives that British governments have pursued with very limited success for many years, setting target after target and leading delegation after delegation in the hope of an improvement that stubbornly fails to materialise. British investment is high, but a previous Cameron aim of doubling trade failed, with overall trade barely up on what it was in 2010 and the British share of imports falling. The package of agreements to be signed this time may improve matters, but it is from a low base. A better economic relationship with India is desirable, but do we need to pay a high political price for it, or to set it to music as if it was a story of love at last requited?


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Can somebody pls tell these @$$Holes that British entered India because India was already a modern and the Richest nation of that time...

 

[Sheikh Rauf]

Not at all .

If anything you gave me a laugh.

There is a nation in S Asia thats a jinx.. all links to international terror lead to it . Should the world ban the nation ?

Think about it

Lemme guess is it start with "I"
Hmmm how about a terrorist PM
Is it a country who wishs to convert everyone in one religion
How many sepratist movents does that nation is facing
Another last guess is this country famouse for rap?
I hope i am close enough...

 

[third eye]

Lemme guess is it start with "I"
Hmmm how about a terrorist PM
Is it a country who wishs to convert everyone in one religion
How many sepratist movents does that nation is facing
Another last guess is this country famouse for rap?
I hope i am close enough...

See.. you have a biased mindset.

I was thinking of a nation which starts with an A.!

 

[Sheikh Rauf]

See.. you have a biased mindset.

I was thinking of a nation which starts with an A.!

well its your choice...