KS
ELITE MEMBER
- Joined
- Apr 1, 2010
- Messages
- 12,528
- Reaction score
- 0
- Country
- Location
Interesting point however what you mentioned is a commonpitfall as they its known in economics associated with opportunity cost. However this can be a double edge sword to economic development of inde and sentiments are changing in west, go through cbc comment or radio francais and you can clearly see public views shifting towards the other side with respect to issues like palestine,armenian genocide and kashmir. To pakistans credit, they are right behind israel in lobbying at washington take note , i am skeptic whats their current reason but it was reported in the media, , though inde is in a difficult position because nationlism does not run deep enough yet to overcome certain identities though i am curious about the state of this union in a 100 years if i am alive
See one thing you should know about South asians is we are extremely emotional people and place an insane amount of importance on something called honor (or even ego). So no matter the cost, Kashmir will be defended. It has become a matter of honor for us - not to capitulate before religious bigots. And we will not.
Second when you have a population of 1.3 billion, which is larger than the entire western civilization put together, and increasingly an economic power then you would understand why the views of the listeners of CBS or radio francais hardly matters.
About the state of the union 100 years hence, dont worry we have survived all the doomsday predictions right from our inception as a modern political state and we will do just fine. We have our differences, our regional, ethnic, linguistic, religional differences. But at the end of the day you should understand we are a civilizational state (unlike Canada or US) with a shared history, culture,heritage and faith running into 1000s of years and they are the connecting fabric of our nation..