If the ex RSS chief makes remarks it is quiet a possibility that he would have seen that unfortunate event of the assignation of Mrs Indira Gandhi or at least he would have other material proving his perspective. But from the point of view of an insignificant voter, one can only imagine the enormity of challenges that have made the personality of Congress president Sonia Gandhi of today.

One doesn’t agree with many policies of the congress party, especially on the first amendment of the constitution, vote-bank politics, unfair electoral practices, land acquisition politics etc.

Talking about the first amendment, it doesn’t mean that the recognition of two states, from what was remaining of the British Bombay presidency after the partition was wrong. Because it is a fact that even after the first amendment to the constitution declaring division of India by languages, the languages Marathi and Gujarati were not recognized, and it was only fare that the two were recognized later in keeping with the amendment. But my opposition is to the whole idea of linguistic states.

What I mean is, we can see of that decision a generation and a half ago has done today; people think they have their leaders in their languages, and a designated land, exclusive to them, and the union government as a burden (Delhi Darbar they call it). I mean we are lucky at least today we have leaders of national appeal.  But soon this pool would dry out, because a national leader is a one who can stand elected for any electorate from north to south and from east to west and such leaders even today would be numbered, may be one or two.   And a couple of generations down the line, a leader from one exclusive state would have no appeal for the people of another exclusive state and with no one to lead the union, we all can imagine what we are heading for. And bringing change now is paramount and needs to be tackled with statesmanship above party lines and with most urgency.

Second is the problem of obsolete and very byes, land acquisition laws and methodologies. Today if a farmer is living of the land. Even one crop in a year can sustain him and his family for one full year. And if by virtue of a land acquisition that livelihood and land is taken away the government needs to ensure the farmer’s livelihood. Because the farmer is naïve about money, he has never seen the kind of money he gets by the sale of land, and in his opinion the sale of land is his ultimate salvation, but the fact is that he is wrong. Indian and multinational business work world wide today sharing profits with local populations, what is the problem with sharing it at India. I think the problem is lack of adequate legal provisions.    

So such and many more are my concerns with the ruling party of the day, but beyond that as for the Congress president is concerned, I think she is a great woman.

Just imagine.

Imagine a dream of a beautiful love story of wonderful woman with the most admirable and a warm gentleman one could think of, their blissfully protected life, a happily married couple in a joint family.

And one tragic morning she is awake, her dream is suddenly broken and she is holding her motherinlaw trenched in blood, wriggled with bullets.

Imagine what would be her condition.

The loss is enormous for the couple. For the son, losing his mother and even in such tender turn of life, put in to the shoes of his mother. And for her an entire family in pain and the tragic memories of that fateful day haunting her time and again..

 But as time passes by she somehow limps back from the loss and the tragic and horrific sight of losing her mother-in-law in her own hands. The couple somehow learns to live with the reality, standing by each other in the toughest of times, and just as they think the worst is over and they start looking at life afresh, she is shattered with a bomb that blows up her husband beyond recognition.

Imagine what would be her condition.

It’s a very sad story but it doesn’t end there,

With two young children in her tearful eyes she looks back at her loss with disbelief, she sees two ways, one pointing to an introvert life of confinement dedicated to her children, and second way pointing to the enormous burden of her husband’s dreams, his genuineness, his sincerity, a personality that no one but her could defend in his absence, the enormous heritage and the proud history of her family, so cherished by both her husband her mother-in-law. It is hard to imagine what would be going through mind when she decides to take the second path. Because it was an almost impossible task.

We often praise the triumph of Asian and African people against all odds, against race discrimination, the suffering, and it is no doubt a very sad reality of the world. And today if the US. has a president born in Africa heading the most powerful office in the world, it is a great achievement, and beyond doubt it is all the reason to celebrate.  But what is equally unfortunate that a similar triumph of a single European woman fighting the same odds, her triumph misses the limelight.

But at the same I don’t support her inner voice theory. What I mean is if the people of India select her against all such discrimination and all the odds, and if she has to let them down bay saying that she doesn’t feel right about taking the responsibility, this in my opinion is a breach of trust. So all one can only say that the people of United States were lucky while the Indian people have to wait for another chance.

Any way the above does not claim any knowledge or exactness to the story of the Congress president Sonia Gandhi, but just an attempt to revisit the enormous courage of a simple woman in such tough times. When she defies all odds, rises from the ashes and does the impossible.

So coming back to the ex RSS chiefs comments about the assassination of Mrs Indira Gandhi. With the limited perspective available in the public domain it is far to imagine that a simple woman who in all probability would have not even seen the whole of Delhi, and until that tragic day may have never seen a hospital in Delhi, is faced with the enormous challenge of keeping herself together against the backdrop of her mother-in-law down in a pool of blood. And if someone says that she should have measured the distance of the nearest hospital…The statement sounds a kind of bizarre to me.    And as for his comments about her being a CIA agent sounds most bizarre, surely I would not have any intelligence information on it, but had it been true she could have easily migrated to the US. or Europe after the tragic death of her husband, surely the Gandhi’s would have enough to provide for a nice lifestyle in such an event, and come back like a remote-control over Congress as a mentor and a star campaigner, I mean with so many scams around, she could have been the richest woman on the planet by now. So that’s why I feel such comments seem very unfortunate. Not because they look illogical but because such comments look to be originating from some personal disliking. But having said that the point that Mr. Sudershan was trying to make about the Ghost armies of the west and their involvement in the elimination of the heads of our nation has often surfaced in the media and is understandable.

But for that I wonder if one single agency or nation can be blamed for that. Because if one looks back at the history of their involvement in Asia it has always been a collaborated affaire.

If you look at what is known as the ‘cutting of the Chinese melon’ where the nation was drugged by British and their Indian colony for a hundred years. This weakened the nation moral was broken; corruption became rampant, and led to the political disturbance leading to American lead monopolization of China, dividing the monopoly between its different partners. It was called the ‘American open door policy’.   It seems quit relevant that after the Second World War, the British did not see any point in owning and governing colonies. The US led open-door regime looked far more practical. And the partnership in Iraq looks like an example of the same open-door policy still very relevant.   

Under this backdrop then, researched documents of many journalists, about suspicions engagements seem very real.

For example the late PLO supremeo Mr Yasser Arafat preempting Mrs Indira Gandhi of an international conspiracy to assassinate her etc. journalists writing about hedge funds in the US funding the LTTE, it’s a murky world of these proud secrete services of the west and I wonder what common people are supposed to make of it.

I remember having come across a statement by Martin Luther King Jr, “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools” 

So it is for the political fraternity to decide how far disagreements should go and that if they are opponents divided by Ideologies or enemies.