There can be no compromise with Pakistan. It has perpetrated terror in the Punjab and it has done so in Kashmir and elsewhere in India. I wish the Indian leaders owed their allegiance to their country first and then to their respective parties. If they cared less for personal and party power, our country would have been that much more powerful. It ought to be nation first and then the person. The nation emerging strong, individual interests will automatically be fulfilled.
This is the national predicament today. How we measure up to it will determine largely our future as a people, as a culture and as a civilisation for there are internal threats to the same as well which will have to be simultaneously dealt, intimately connected as they are to the external threat. The designs to disrupt our solidarity as a nation both from within and without are real and not imaginary. We have paid the price in Partition once and can ill-afford to pay any such any more. Hence, vigilant we must be to the threats to our nation and rise up we must in defence of it through selfless service to the motherland and not selfish pursuit of our individual dreams and aspirations that run contrary to national interest.
Written by Sugata Bose
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