S.Taroor once again in lime light. I somehow enjoy writing about this man’s ‘karname’ and the way he gets embroiled into political controversies.
The recent one Saudi Arabia being a mediator for Indo-Pak talks, is hilarious in needed. Media very well knows this guy is a wonderful source for filling the pages of newspaper or some prime time slots. Bechara apnea paet mein kuch nahi rakh sakta and the media waits for him to belch. What interests me most is if his belch smells true, what made India agree to a mediator and why Saudi?
For ages we have been so confident (or afraid) that we do not require any mediator as we were confident that we are two very ‘sound’ nations and we had a ‘good chemistry’. Indeed we are a sound nation as the regular bomb blast take care of it and the chemistry always have resulted in an extreme exothermic and nuclear reaction, so it does work well.
After so much hue and cry finally India has realized that an ‘interlocutor’ is required and not a mediator. I ran through the pages of the dictionary to find whats the damn difference between the two is. FYI an interlocutor means ‘someone who informally explains the views of a government and also can relay messages back to a government’. Now you got it, since the modern ways of communication and transportation fail to connect us two at a psychological level (as physically we are stone’s throw apart) we needed some other channel.
But why Saudi? Here are few points, the first one is simple.
1. America loves Saudi’s, we started to love America à We can start loving Saudis
2. Saudi is a Muslim country with strict Muslim nation with strict laws for everyone there except for the royal family. (I may be denied a Visa or can get myself beheaded for this statement). Now Pak is also a Muslim country. So basically pressure on Pak to leave their inclination towards our beloved enemy (China)
3. Talking about China, India Cleary sent a message across to China “U rascalas, you have no business here as this deal is not as ‘cheap’ as the kind of products you make”. And you better stay out of this as you are number 2 in our hit list.
But how did all this unfold? Here is the secret (from our internal sources)—Someone from our ministry had the time to read the “Arthashastra” J. And for those in the management do a SWOT analysis and you will know the answer.
