Shantanu_Left
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As you have written 'If you were an Indian citizen you'd defend this land grabbing as well'...don't know how the nationalism would have taken me over the humanitarian issue...might have opposed it.
Yes you are right about Chanakya...theory of power and pelf, how to use deceit and deception as norm, how to wield power on small neighbors...but I think these Arthashastras of Chankaya are not working on nation states, fit for kings and Raja, Maharajas fiefdoms and Kingdoms...here India need to change it drastically, the reason for neighbor states going against India, and the perpetual bad attitude of India towards Pakistan has 'Chanakya' written over it.
As someone has written, India became a colonizing power on the footprints of colonial Britishers after they left the Indian subcontinent...it is like colonizing Britishers passing the buck to India...
Arundhati Roy has written 'Kashmir was never a part of India'...but when you are on land grabbing spree such ethos takes a back seat.
I don't really follow Chanakya (I use him to mock/settle scores with the Sanghis here ).
Bismarck and Machiavelli are more serious progenitors of modern statecraft theories which all sovereign nations follow today, including Pakistan.
I am not defending the land-grabbing. All I am saying is that I cannot be persuaded to become anti-India just because my country has done some wrong deeds.
I have met so many Pakistanis in real. Very lovely people, but whenever the real discussion starts, it has a tendency to go along these lines:
"Shantanu Bhai, ap itnay achay insaan ho, aap Kashmiris ko support karo."
"OK"
"Ab aap Modi aur BJP ko condemn karo"
"Done"
"Ab aap India ki muzammat karo kyuki wo hamare Musalmano par tashaddud kartee hai"
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If I don't put a brake at this point, the discussion will not end till: "ab ap India-India karna chhorho aur Pakistani ban jaao"