We appear to be have been Daridra i.e. famished of almost everything under the sun !!!
Ex-diplomat and Ex-Foreign Minister K. Natwar Singh once stated, almost 75% diplomats of the IFS cadre are always busy licking boots of Americans so as to manage Green-Cards for their progeny, admission into Ivy League Universities or jobs in Microsoft/IBM. Even a junior American diplomat could barge into the room of a senior IFS diplomat without appointment and he would be accorded ‘Standing Ovation’ of sorts !!! Damn those waiting outside with scheduled appointments to meet the Deshi official. On the contrary with our IFS officials, these very US diplomats are snobbish, haughty and arrogant as our diplomats were devoid of self-respect and the sense of national honour. And we expect them to do tough talking with Americans, Chinese and Pakistanis !! We have been expecting too much from them.
Almost every IITian is all the time scheming, how and how soon to secure a Green-Card for himself and his family. Like them, so many others too. No soft corner for the nation or the money nation have been spending on them to grab those prestigious degrees only to serve ‘MOTHER AMERICA’ (forget Mother India please, least of all Bharata Mata !!) with their spacious argument – BRAIN DRAIN IS BETTER THAN BRAIN IN THE DRAIN. How stupid of them !! This is the so-called drain that enabled them to stand up in America albeit like pathetic seekers. They won’t care to stay on, struggle and sacrifice with self-respect, transform that so-called drain into a fresh-water swirling river. They are merely fair-weather friends, selfish to the core of their minds. If today, US President Donald Trump is imposing Visa regime on ‘human-ware’ from overseas, he is perfectly justified so much so that we have been excessively indulgent to lodge enormous concern on Visa restrictions. America enjoys every right to hand over American jobs to Americans in their territory. We should not only welcome that with a large heart but also congratulate them for sending back our talent to our country to work here.
In a highly materialistic, glamour-chasing state like Punjab, American Green-Card holders are indeed awe-inspiring, adored like Paramatma irrespective of their status in America, may be just a janitor, labourer or something even lower than that. Widespread, unfortunate malaise of ‘Holiday-brides’ in Punjab has been direct reward of this trait of glamour-chasing in America, an insane race indeed. From USA, madness to acquire Green-Card has been gradually shifting to Canada. There too, life is not that comfortable at all. Yet the blind craze thrives.
When Kalpana Chawla said ‘Thank you, Indians’ before blasting off into space never to come back, we went into raptures of ecstasy and Bhangara, so thrilled were we all !! Because we have been deprived of self-esteem, self-respect and self-confidence indeed for long.
There was a stampede on the floor of Lok-Sabha to hand-shake President Bill Clinton. Fortunately, it was not ‘Mother Of All Stampedes’ !!! One Bihari MP succeeded in shaking his hands and declared thereafter before live TV channels, “I won’t wash my hands for at least 3 months after shaking US Presidents hands !”. He did not mind the fact that those were hands that ‘shook’ Monica Lewinsky too, all over her body !!
To my utter surprise, Arjuna Singh turned out to be slightly patriotic !!! He profoundly ‘gratified’ himself from the Union Carbide according to media reports before letting out Warren Andersen, their Chairman on a red carpet…I mean red carpet see-off after being ‘propitiated’ instead of being awarded Green-Cards for his entire clan !!! After Bhopal court judgement, Mother of All Blame-Games started and Arjuna Singh observed ‘Enlightened Silence’ to deflect any possible undesirable attention from the public.
When US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, endowed with her ‘school-girl intellect’, visited our country, she was adored like a ‘Devi’ as many of us were expecting Green-Cards showering from her hands raised in benediction upon them like the Holy Father showering blessings from Vatican holes at the mid-night of every Dec. 25.
When US President Dwight David Eisenhower declared before the jam-packed Ramlila Maidan in Nai Dilli, way back in 1959 right in presence of the last Mughal Nehru (first state visit of a US President) – “Thank God, it is a democratic country”, Congress leaders found themselves infinitely blessed. They did not know or feigned ignorance that freedom and civil liberty have always been ingrained, engraved deep into every Hindu psyche. Probably they could not muster courage in their groins to educate the haughty and ignorant US President of our realities of having been the most advanced society in the world for hundreds of centuries.
Nehrus supine obsequies and subservience before Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of the then US President John Kennedy, are well known. Only if honourable worthies like Manish Tiwari or Shashi Tharoor could tell us whether Nehru saw yet another Edwina Mountbatten in her !!
Travails of Prime Minister ManMohan Singh, a communist in the garb of a liberal, being often humiliated by his Italian boss is too widely known to be recounted here. He was honoured in the White House only due to his supine subservience before the US President.
There are innumerable, such examples of our wretched behaviour towards and before Americans, their Green-Cards and the lucre looted by them from all over the world stashed in their country.
It is ironical. We Hindu-s are the most civilised and most cultured community in the world, no other community in the world stands even close to us albeit the inferiority complex, wretchedness that we hold within ourselves, is truly mind-boggling, baffling for poor Souls like me. These are rewards and proceeds of several decades of McCaulay brand of secular education, completely devoid of our glorious heritage, values and spiritual splendour. Will we all strive to become dignified, self-esteemed and evoke respect in others for us ?
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