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Nations: Beware of the Rebellion of Travelers

What threatens the travelers the most? Conflict Zones, Natural Disasters, Lack of Funds, Nostalgia, Threat of Sickness, Distrust of People, Wild Encounters, or NATIONS! By far, it should be nations. Nations create borders, which creation restricts movement, and, in case of big nations like the US, also attacks dignity by forcing travelers through unwarranted immigration checks: why should each single traveler be put through the prying eyes of the officials for catching some unidentified rebel, who pose a remote threat, if any at all, only to a few VIPs. Natural disasters rather than being threats provide opportunities to the travelers to volunteer help. Lack of funds are hardly any hindrance to travelers: poor or rich, a traveler knows how to keep within his means and also to earn while traveling. Nostalgia can affect initially till the traveler has learned to embrace the whole world as his home, but once so embraced, Internet is innovative enough to keep building new homes in each new city in a jiffy. Threat of sickness can be real, but travelers do take appropriate precautions. Furthermore, traveling develops its own unique immune system. If a traveler gets frightened of people, he is hardly a traveler. Accept it, people can’t be faithful like dogs, and with dogs you can travel only in Lutyens’ Delhi – ironically, not many years ago, both dogs and Indians were banned in Lutyens’ Delhi, but now a few Indians seem to have avenged dogs, but only dogs: the rest remains the same. Wild encounters can happen on trees, in caves, on rocks, under sky, above ground or in Five Star bedrooms. A traveler would normally prefer it all. Conflict zones can indeed cause hindrance to the movement of travelers, but only if the travelers align with the nations. If they remain non-aligned, I don’t think they are important enough to be on the hit list of the rebels. Yes, of course, intelligence agents can disguise themselves as travelers, or probably they already do, but what really can you do about a tribe which just doesn’t know how to live and let live. Moreover, they are also representatives of the nations only. So, indeed nations are the biggest threat to the travelers. Somewhere I read traveling is the purest form of rebellion. Purest or not, it definitely is the subtle most. It poses threat to the very concept of nations itself. How long can the nations keep stamping the free spirits of travelers in Black and White. Sooner or later, the travelers will start flying colorful kites transcending borders and conflict zones, be it a Naxal zone, a militant affected Kashmir zone, or, for that matter, even an ISIS controlled Syrian zone. Nations would keep issuing their advisories, and travelers would keep trashing them along with their visa documents (if it comes to that). Btw, travelers discovered nations and now they also have the option of flying to Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Sun; so, nations: GROW UP AND BEHAVE! Click to Post

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India Abandons Panchsheel in Israel

Our school invariably had two sections across the board: Section A and Section B. Section A was reserved for students living in Vihars: Preet Vihar, Swasthya Vihar, Priyadarshini Vihar, Nirman Vihar, etc. Section B was reserved for Nagars: Laxmi Nagar, Shastri Nagar, Ganesh Nagar, Pandav Nagar, etc. I, though being in Section B, had developed friendship with Section A students. Of course, one fine day Section B students, who were also friends, beat me up. The school promptly changed my section. I was mobile enough to pick up my bag and move into the posh and élite Section A. Similarly, the world is also divided into sections. Israel is surrounded by Arabs, Palestine, Syria and what not. But it, of course, belongs more to Europe and the US than to West Asia. If given a chance, it would also pack its bags and shift westward towards Europe along with Jerusalem. But of course it can’t, so it remains where it is and fights the Muslim world. That’s the only choice left when you can’t move residence lock, stock and barrel. I have never been to Israel so can’t say how ugly or beautiful the country is, but, from whatever I have read, it is, ironically, the biggest violator of Human Rights after Hitler’s Germany. India has been better off. Nehru created Panchsheel – the best India has so far done on the diplomatic front. Though the principles were part of the treaty between India and China, they were nevertheless adopted later in the Non-Aligned Movement, which is thus to be acknowledged as the true identity of Panchsheel. Panchsheel allowed a positioning very similar to that of Finland, who, though being part of Europe, maintained good relationships with the USSR during Cold War. But, of course, Nehru did it at a much larger scale gathering all the left out countries within its fold. India ensured close relationship with Russia without riling the US, who for a good part kept thinking Russia was trying to acquire India after acquiring Afghanistan. But, ironically, Panchsheel failed with China – though technically speaking the Sino-Indian war broke out after the 1954 Panchsheel agreement came to an end. Once again the situation between India and China has escalated in Sikkim. Ironically, China is invoking Panchsheel this time. It says Indian troops transgressed into the Chinese side. As an #AntiNationalHumanist, I have stopped taking sides, especially between the two warring nations. Whatever may be the truth, one thing is for sure that Panchsheel is hardly invocable in the current Indian regime. In fact, Modi’s Israel visit is a clear message to the world that India is no more non-aligned. It has moved clearly and decisively towards the Europe and the US. Interestingly, Russia seems to be indifferent, but China would, of course, have problems. It is the new and possibly the only challenger to the US. It has support from Pakistan, Iran, Russia, and the whole host of Asian countries, especially after the “Belt and Road” initiative. And it would not like any US proxy in Asia to challenge its new positioning. I have a feeling that the current Sino-Indian tension in Sikkim has its genesis in Modi’s US visit followed by the Israel visit, but this shouldn’t be construed to mean that China is the aggressor: India might have well transgressed into the Chinese occupation as declaration of its new friendship with the West. However, India is different from Israel. First, India doesn’t have a culture of war mongering. It’s only lately that “Bhakts” have started shouting “Bharat Mata” slogans, but let me advice the Indian army that not one of them would go fight China if the situation comes to that – so, I do reiterate the question of some politician, “Was anyone martyred from Gujarat?” Secondly, India is not as close to the West as Israel is, and Indians are not as white as Israelis are – ok, I need to admit here that Section B students were all Black and Section A students were pretty White, which was attributed entirely to the fairness cream, and I did feel the need to buy one after a while. Thirdly, in spite of their White colour, Section A students were pretty abusive too. Ditto for the West. In my case, it worked because I had fundamental problems with the Section B students. But, in the present case of India, I don’t see any fundamental problem between India and China. There is a scope for co-existence especially when India shares skin color with both Pakistan and China. Last but not the least, if India is following Chanakya Niti, which says one should be hostile to the immediate neighbour and friendly to the neighbour next-to-next, let me inform India that the neighbour next-to-next is the Pacific Ocean, not the US. Moreover, Chanakya has died long ago along with all his misogynistic ideals. Let him RIP! © 2017 Ankur Mutreja Feature Image Credit: Narendra Modi (https://www.flickr.com/photos/narendramodiofficial/15282466671/sizes/l/) Click to Post