THOSE were the times of Gandhi and Nehru when India was known and praised for its leadership in the world’s arena of moral politics, nonviolence and international peace. Though they were also political animals, and prudent practitioner of Chanakya’s political philosophy of expediency, deceit and dominance, yet being wise and equipped with higher intellect, Gandhi and Nehru refrained from any hate or jingoistic talk.

But today’s India led by RSS/ BJP has not only brought shame to proverbial secular India world over. India under Modi is at war with itself, with its neighbors, and even doesn’t shy of stinging others in far off foreign lands. Is this sheer madness, arrogance, ignorance or domestic politics at worst, the world is observing with caution and the history will judge mercilessly. The latest addition to this hate-muddle has been added by none other but the India Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi.

On November 17, speaking on ‘Chanakya Defence Dialogue’ he has called Operation Sindoor, ‘just a trailer’ and that the actual movie is yet to be witnessed by the world. Going by his logic, if two nuclear powers firing missiles at each other, engaged in lethal aerial battles, and armed forces fully operationalized, was just a trailer, the logic says that the movie would surely contain full scale nuclear attacks. He proudly boasted to the audience: “If Pakistan gives a chance, we will teach it how to behave responsibly with a neighboring nation.” Indian Army Chief’s verbal assaults can neither be ignored, nor responded to in the same coin, as the cost would be very heavy,........

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