India as a superpower Why and why not?
Friday, August 27th, 2010
What is holding Indians back from realising the motherland’s superpower potential and become one? In one phrase it is our present ruling elite’s illegitimate Anglo-Indian culture and a mindset to appease and capitulate to those who want to belittle or control India.
Why are we not a permanent veto-holding UN Security Council member? Because when the Americans offered the seat to us in 1950 to replace China-which had become Communist in 1949 and hence expelled from the UN, Nehru declined the offer by saying that the seat belonged to China! Our elite media termed it as Nehru’s “nobility”. China sneered at our foolishness. In 1962 they answered Nehru’s nobility by humiliating India on the battlefield. Indian soldiers were kept unprepared for that conflict because Nehru was too busy preaching peace abroad.
