Sunday, February 07, 2021

Don't know when you might need someone.

"Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a scathing attack on 'international conspirators' who were out to discredit India -- without directly taking the names of Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg who shared a 'toolkit' in support  of the ongoing farm protests and other global celebrities backing the agitation -- and said the country will 'respond to these conspiracies with all its might." "Some documents have come up revealing that some foreign powers are planning to attack India's identity associated with tea." India is not associated with successfully launching satellites into space, nor with building our own nuclear power plants, nor as a vibrant civilisation with 22 official languages, but with tea which is said to have originated in China and the word 'chai' is believed to be of Chinese origin. So, when the PM says that India is associated with tea does that make us a colony of China? Who are the "international conspirators" out to destroy India? Greta Thunberg is a Swedish girl who turned 18 years of age on 3 January 2021, and was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and selective mutism at the age of 11 years. She campaigns on climate change which she believes, rightly so, will leave a desert world for her generation. Rihanna is a pop singer, actress and business woman born in Barbados and living in the US. A child and a luvvie. Hardly terrifying international conspirators for a nation which boasts of having developed hypersonic, air-breathing, scramjet missiles. Apparently, Greta has a sinister toolkit. Any man would think a toolkit is something that you keep in the glove compartment of your car in case of a puncture. Not that toolkit. "A toolkit is a collection of authoritative and adaptable resources for front-line staff that enable them to learn about an issue and identify approaches for addressing them." Just a harmless teaching device, and not an explosive IED, that has created such panic in our government. The reason is that Delhi Police is of the opinion that the infamous toolkit is the work of one Mo Dhaliwal who is a Canadian businessman and is an avowed Khalistani. If India can seek extradition of Vijay Mallya and Nirav Modi from the UK surely we can ask Canada to restrain separatists. Because, instead of explaining our sensitivities regarding Khalistanis, India insulted and humiliated Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when he visited India in February 2018 with wife and children. This was noted all over the world and Trudeau's former principal secretary Gerald Butts accused Modi of "screwing" the Canadian Prime Minister. "You see there was a reason the foreign ministry reacted reacted to the statements that some celebrities gave out, for whatever reason, on matters they didn't know very much," said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar. If they are ignorant just ignore their foolishness. The reason is that Modi has completely controlled the cowed Indian media but cannot ask anything of Canada which is a member of the G7 group of nations.  India is falling in the Democracy Index according to The Economist Intelligence Unit. A far cry from 'Howdy Modi'.

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