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How is Brainwashing Indians: When actual Kashmiri Freedom Struggle is being diverted, Blaming Pakistan never worked, never will.
What should we, as ordinary Indians, do after the dastardly Pulwama terror attack?
Amish Tripathi
There is sorrow, pain and rage across India after the Pakistani terrorist attack in Pulwama, Jammu & Kashmir. I share the rage of my fellow Indians. The question that arises is, what should we, the ordinary Indians, do now?
What is clear to me is what we should not do. We should not presume the expertise to tell our armed forces or our political leadership when, how and where they should strike back. In peacetime, it is our right to give free rein to our innately rebellious nature, and argue and criticise. But this is not peacetime. The Pakistanis have committed an act of war. Once again. At this moment we need to trust our brave soldiers and political leadership to do what must be done.
Then what should we, the ordinary people, do?
I have a few suggestions. First, we must boycott Pakistan. Many Indian peaceniks claim that ordinary Pakistanis want peace with India. Perhaps there is an element of truth in this. But what the Pakistani people think is irrelevant. They have no avenues of influence over their monstrous state, the spawn of MA Jinnah’s Partition movement. The Pakistani state is owned by their army. A huge share of Pakistan’s budget/ GDP is seized by the Pakistani army.
And the Pakistani army is a commercial enterprise, covering areas as diverse as real estate, biscuits and the export-oriented terror industry, which exports terror not just to India, but also to Afghanistan, Iran and other countries around the world. The Pakistani army captures a disproportionate share of all the money that flows in that benighted land. When you give money to any Pakistani, you indirectly support that Pakistani military-jihadi combine.
For example, when you give money to Pakistani artistes, they go back home and pay taxes to the government, which then contributes to funding terror operations around the world, or for deep state sponsored murders of targeted minorities like the Shia and Sufi Muslims, Hindus and Christians. Also, let us abandon this bizarre belief that “a strong, stable Pakistan is in India’s interest”. On the contrary, a weak, economically fractured, and hopefully splintered Pakistan, is actually in India’s and the world’s interest.
Second, support the Indian armed forces. Give them respect. As someone who has had the privilege of calling some uniformed services people my family, I can tell you their primary motivator is not money, but patriotism and honour. The respect of their fellow countrymen gives them joy.
Furthermore, our soldiers worry about what will happen to their families if they make the supreme sacrifice. Therefore, contribute money. Many charities do exemplary work in helping injured soldiers and the families of martyrs. Give as much as you can. For example, you can use the website bharatkeveer.gov.in to contribute towards the welfare of the brave soldiers of the CRPF. Also, if you know families of martyrs in your communities, meet them. Help them. Not only monetarily, but emotionally as well. Our soldiers must know that their families are the collective responsibility of the nation, and we will not fail them, or forget them.
Lastly, and most importantly, be an Indian worthy of the sacrifice of our soldiers. Browse the list of martyrs across all our uniformed services over the last few decades. You will find men and women from every community, region, creed and caste in them. From Jammu & Kashmir to Tamil Nadu, from Gujarat to Manipur. From the followers of Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism and many other faiths. From all castes. If we divide our country into language groups, religious groups, castes and communities, we dishonour our braves. We can either be a part of the problem by focussing on divisions, or we can be a part of the solution. The highest truth that we must all honour, is that first and foremost, we are Indians.
As one of our ancient scriptures said so beautifully, north of the oceans, and south of the Himalayas, is the noble nation called Bharat. Our identity extends back into the ageless past. We have added many beautiful layers to it over time. And we will endure long into the future. We will not only survive, we will thrive. More importantly, we will do it together.
Jai Hind. Bharat Mata Ki Jai.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...do-after-the-dastardly-pulwama-terror-attack/
What should we, as ordinary Indians, do after the dastardly Pulwama terror attack?
Amish Tripathi
There is sorrow, pain and rage across India after the Pakistani terrorist attack in Pulwama, Jammu & Kashmir. I share the rage of my fellow Indians. The question that arises is, what should we, the ordinary Indians, do now?
What is clear to me is what we should not do. We should not presume the expertise to tell our armed forces or our political leadership when, how and where they should strike back. In peacetime, it is our right to give free rein to our innately rebellious nature, and argue and criticise. But this is not peacetime. The Pakistanis have committed an act of war. Once again. At this moment we need to trust our brave soldiers and political leadership to do what must be done.
Then what should we, the ordinary people, do?
I have a few suggestions. First, we must boycott Pakistan. Many Indian peaceniks claim that ordinary Pakistanis want peace with India. Perhaps there is an element of truth in this. But what the Pakistani people think is irrelevant. They have no avenues of influence over their monstrous state, the spawn of MA Jinnah’s Partition movement. The Pakistani state is owned by their army. A huge share of Pakistan’s budget/ GDP is seized by the Pakistani army.
And the Pakistani army is a commercial enterprise, covering areas as diverse as real estate, biscuits and the export-oriented terror industry, which exports terror not just to India, but also to Afghanistan, Iran and other countries around the world. The Pakistani army captures a disproportionate share of all the money that flows in that benighted land. When you give money to any Pakistani, you indirectly support that Pakistani military-jihadi combine.
For example, when you give money to Pakistani artistes, they go back home and pay taxes to the government, which then contributes to funding terror operations around the world, or for deep state sponsored murders of targeted minorities like the Shia and Sufi Muslims, Hindus and Christians. Also, let us abandon this bizarre belief that “a strong, stable Pakistan is in India’s interest”. On the contrary, a weak, economically fractured, and hopefully splintered Pakistan, is actually in India’s and the world’s interest.
Second, support the Indian armed forces. Give them respect. As someone who has had the privilege of calling some uniformed services people my family, I can tell you their primary motivator is not money, but patriotism and honour. The respect of their fellow countrymen gives them joy.
Furthermore, our soldiers worry about what will happen to their families if they make the supreme sacrifice. Therefore, contribute money. Many charities do exemplary work in helping injured soldiers and the families of martyrs. Give as much as you can. For example, you can use the website bharatkeveer.gov.in to contribute towards the welfare of the brave soldiers of the CRPF. Also, if you know families of martyrs in your communities, meet them. Help them. Not only monetarily, but emotionally as well. Our soldiers must know that their families are the collective responsibility of the nation, and we will not fail them, or forget them.
Lastly, and most importantly, be an Indian worthy of the sacrifice of our soldiers. Browse the list of martyrs across all our uniformed services over the last few decades. You will find men and women from every community, region, creed and caste in them. From Jammu & Kashmir to Tamil Nadu, from Gujarat to Manipur. From the followers of Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism and many other faiths. From all castes. If we divide our country into language groups, religious groups, castes and communities, we dishonour our braves. We can either be a part of the problem by focussing on divisions, or we can be a part of the solution. The highest truth that we must all honour, is that first and foremost, we are Indians.
As one of our ancient scriptures said so beautifully, north of the oceans, and south of the Himalayas, is the noble nation called Bharat. Our identity extends back into the ageless past. We have added many beautiful layers to it over time. And we will endure long into the future. We will not only survive, we will thrive. More importantly, we will do it together.
Jai Hind. Bharat Mata Ki Jai.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...do-after-the-dastardly-pulwama-terror-attack/
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