The Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to the US has been a stunning success from his point of view, but what has India got in the bargain? Modi is not India — at least, not yet. But Modi nonetheless confused his political interests with the country’s. The country feels cheated, as he brings back with him this appalling document called the ‘Joint Statement’ as the outcome of his 5-day sojourn in the US.
The picture that is bound to be silhouetted in memory for a long time will be that bewildered look on the face of Obama as he kept staring intensely at the face of Modi when the latter was reading out his media statement in Hindi language after their meeting. ‘Is this India’s new ruler?“, he seemed to be wondering — and with good reason, having known Manmohan Singh rather well.
The Indian media persons have drawn comparison between Modi and Obama and scripted fairy tales. It’s all rubbish. Obama is everything that Modi is not — a highly educated, intelligent, cerebral intellectual on his own merit — and he’d never ever have helped himself to such a crude and vulgar spectacle as the one that Modi helped himself to in the Madison Square Garden.
If Modi goes on this MSG track further, he runs the risk of becoming the joker in the G20 and BRICS pack sooner than we think and that will do no good to India’s reputation. In fairness to the country he leads. Modi should have clinically segregated his own political agenda from India’s “enlightened national interests.â€
By all means he could have twinned his visit to the UN General Assembly, a veritable circus anyway, with a second one one at Madison Square Garden.
But the India-US relationship, which has been in the doldrums, deserved a ’stand-alone’ visit with sufficient planning and preparation to back it. Another visit by Modi to Obama’s White House is improbable and an Obama visit to the Delhi darbar can be safely ruled out. Which means Modi lost a big opportunity to transform the relationship and make it contemporaneous with the post-2008 financial crisis in the world economy and to attune it to the imperatives of the development agenda on which he won a huge mandate in the elections in April-May.
What actually has happened is that Modi may showcase in Ahmedabad that Obama greeted him saying Khem Cho. But then, India has been left waiting in the ante-room in the White House. This is disgraceful and is contradictory to what Modi himself professed about foreign policy, namely, that the country’s interests come first.
Earlier Modi was being compared to Ronald Reagan and now he is being compared to Obama. Either way if this comparison is accurate then India is truly screwed
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Earlier Modi was being compared to Ronald Reagan and now he is being compared to Obama. Either way if this comparison is accurate then India is truly screwed
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India has long been screwed. like the Jews Indians have a racial/cultural exceptionalism of their very own that admits whiteness..read american... as desirable, but hates black to death.
and India has chosen to play the Indian people with that evil which is basis of their NRI program that make Indians anywhere Indian and not first, nationals of the country in which they were born, grew, acculturated and by definition ought to be loyal to. India sabotages the nationalism of Indians everywhere, seeking to make them Indian absolute and not nationals of their countries..even of India
it is interesting to try examine that Indianess.
the love of american white contained in it is truly extreme. Indians wannabe american white so badly they apparently dream about it, can cut it, it so thick. incredble! so they end up making such as Obama an icon.
sure Obama is highy educated but in white american/western university crap, a content we know that is full of lies and cultural manipulation... to produce idiot graduates loyal to the american/western imperium. but Indians in their love for whiteness don't see it that way. they rush for such education and admire all who are expert and achieved in it..such as Obama. and so educated Obama as president of the empire is currently the most destructive man on planet earth...one of the most destructive figures in the history of the human species, but at least Bhadrakuma does not see that..or finds nutten wrong with it
Obama is worse than Hitler and Stalin. by the time he is finished with Africa he will be the a Zhombie of all Zhombies, a truly evil figure unprecedented in human terms. yet see how MK Bhadrakumar discusses him, the positive terms and context he created, which exposes him, regardless of his great 'education' and long career in diplomacy for India, is as embed in love of whiteness as any ordinary Indian on the streets of cities and towns anywhere in the world.
Bhadrakumar cannot see whiteness whole and discuss it analytically to expose its usefulness and efficiencies as well as its evil over historical time. Bhardrakuma cannot tell the day, what all that has gone before has brought us to, the crisis we have made for ourselves and to pose ways that might exist out of the mess..all because of the goodness white imperialism is to him, especially its american centre... and and a devil like Obama.
it is the same thing with Indians in the west indies. ketchim once admitted that there is no future in the west indies because Indians will not bend, will not become nationalist... so no west indian nation in the sense of a diverse, inclusive nationalism is possible given how Indians are.
by that same description the Indian nation state is the same way, exceptional, unbendingly so, caste iron...and as a result doomed to their own version of western imperialism as their power develops. that is India's future, quite unlike China.which is now, around the world integrating itself globally, in ways India would never consider were their positions reversed..had India all the money.
but the world in the future, if humanity survives this current crisis, will not tolerate an Imperial India. so the clashes that India will not be able to win are obvious and to be expected. there are those clashes now. Indian exceptionalism poses a serious threat to the human future on a great many levels, and the world will fight back as it does now against the much vaster threat america poses.
it is time for the Indian ordinary people to wake up, embrace their collective interest by deposing their dominant social class, their aristocracy that benefits from their current global NRI dispensation.. that keeps India locked into its current totally negative exceptionalism.
there are no exceptional human beings and cultures. all are human, flesh and blood, universal creatures extruded on earth alone as far as we know, by nature. the story of humanity is already mostly codified and known to a good section of the world. it is now available to anyone with the time and a computer. it is only a matter of time and progressive social change before it becomes general knowledge and taught in the schools to all children, everywhere.
ordinary Indian people must seize their nation from their elites and democratize it. all ordinary people everywhere are beholden to do the same. humanity will not survive unless this develops..the PEOPLE in domination of all human society, establishing the popular will as the basis of social organization.
THERE IS NO HUMAN SURVIVAL WITHOUT THAT DEVELOPMENT SAVE FOR A SHORT TIME TO COME UNDER A BRAVE NEW WORLD.
Brave New World be would one short step away from extinction.
Indian society is screwed unless it revolutionizes itself
Earlier Modi was being compared to Ronald Reagan and now he is being compared to Obama. Either way if this comparison is accurate then India is truly screwed
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SCA : gonna deal with you 2 non muddah lann folks .
