I throw this as an open question for all the thinkers. I would try to analyse the topic with respect of certain incidences i have been closely following.
First would be Obama's visit to India and its repurcussions thereafter. The entire visit could be seen as a management masterpiece as the events and meetings were choreographed to the perfection. Indian politicians were watchful about US's intentions which were mostly related to generation of employment opportunites in the state. So the US president deftly hit the Indian corporate giants with lucrative pacts signed with them and an invitation to invest in america. First things first and then the things of relatively lower importance were addressed such as answering to India's expectations of permanent seat in the security council and reprimand to pakistan for proliferation of terrorism. However in my opinion both of these issues could never directly help India to achieve something fruitful in lieu of strengthening the economy and addressing the competition from China. Obama is a intelligent man but i cannot find the same when it comes to his 'change' rhetoric which he used throughout his election campain. He is very good at public speaking and has a charisma 10 times than that of amithabh bacchan that's it. Plain and simple. He just did his homework and gave Indian what it wanted i.e. just a 'jhunjhuna' with which a child plays and forgets other things.
All the dancing in the school by Michelle and ' Jai Hind' slogan in the parliament by Obama was a mere eyewash. Media and other people can be happy with that but i am not in a mood of romance, you see. What is the work done on the table is what matters at the end of the day. I wish our PM could have thought about that. All we want is that US must teach a lesson to Pakistan for being a spoiled child in the subcontinent. I dont understand when we will realise that we have grown up now and can definately play the elder bother here. C'mon now dont say that its easier said than done but i would just say if Sardar Patel could make more than 200 independent kingdoms ,some of them of the size of pakistan now, to fall in line to our terms than who is this hostile neighbours. Now our high held intellectual beauracratic class would say that i m immature here then answer just one question. Was US immature when it said to the rest of the world that in the war against terrorism you are either with us or against us. We have no issues with Iran in fact it is among the top 5 nations with whom we trade the most. Then why do we have to make changes in our foreign policy with it. Obama instructs our leaders in our parliament in our country to 'look into Burma' and our leaders just give him standing ovation for that. Excuse me people, either our MLA's have never seen high quality presentations or they have a sense of humor of a 8 year old girl. I mean if you could replace Obama with Al pacino in the scent of woman speech, they would have touched his feet then!
However when US said that we are not a developing country but a developed one we should understand that now its the time to create some identity of our own. We have to stop kissing the ass of so called other powerful countries and wait for them to act in out internal matters. We should learn something from Israel, a very small state compared to India, which is cornered with the most hostile neighbours in the world. America is bound to give them support because they just wont allow themseleves to be overpowered.
But i have personally drawn very helpful observations from Obama. First,a leader with good impactful public speaking skills is simply indomitable. History has shown this many times with the cases of Hitler or Atal Bihari Vajpayee and in the present Obama is a classic example of the same.
I hope the readers would not make judgements from my seemingly caustic remarks and make their own opinions instead while imbibing something positive. Please feel free to post your comments or share the writeup and a fruitful discussion is always welcome.
Happy thinking!
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