Thoughts For Bharat

20 days on. Chinese are officially inside India [Chinese troops are 20km inside Indian territory in Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) sector in eastern Ladakh] Indian government is mum. Army is holding flag meetings with the Chinese Army without any results and our foreign ministry's visit to China now looks dicey. Why is he going at all? Shouldn't we be putting this issue on the block as priority one?Where is it all headed ? Only God knows for sure because our government looks more clueless each passing day. Beautiful Ladakh As an Indian, I don't wish for an all out war, teach the enemy a lesson kind of reaction, but I am not exactly feeling proud at the way things are being handled. Hardly missed is the fact that we are overly bending ourselves trying to please the Chinese. Why are we doing it? I am hoping our government knows what it is doing and doesn't end up ceding a big chunk of Indian Territory to the Chinese which ultimately becomes a 'disputed territory' ...

Am Quoting an English translation of a Tamil poem composed some 2000 years ago by Avvaiyar "It is rare to be born as a human being, It is still rarer to be born without any deformity. Even if you are born without any deformity, It is rare to acquire knowledge and education. Even if one could acquire knowledge and education, It is still rare to offer service to the mankind and contemplate on the higher self. If one leads such a selfless divine life, The gates of heaven open to greet such an evolved soul." I Read this poem in Dr. Abdul Kalam's book Ignited Minds. It took a while to absorb the import of this poem but later two thoughts built up inside me. I am sharing them below: One that India had a thinker/poet of such high capacity as far back as 2000 years ago [Did some research on net to find about Avvaiyars (Tamil: ஔவையார் ). It means "respectable women" and is a  title of more than one poet active during various times of Tamil literature]. Ha...