Too much India reliance may harm our national interest; if only we could handle our own problems without involving others. Awarding India UNSC seat? Think twice The style in which New Delhi, the seat of power of the former British and the Moghuls who ruled India for centuries, this time responded to Nepali leaders gave the thought that the Indian leadership were granting audience to its own subjects and that those looking for audience desperately were their low rung people with no standing in the society who could be dictated on any theme beginning politics to whom should rule the independent and sovereign country-Nepal and how Nepal should be governed. Undenyingly, dictates and instructions could only be provided to those who require it at the very first place and also to those who could be considered and taken for granted as the Nepali versions of the MirJaffors and Jaychands of the name and fame of Indian history. As if that were not enough, this time Indian leadership showed slight evidence of its uncovered diplomacy towards Nepal, a country that may be underprivileged and a divided lot (which it is by all means) but never have had to feel the brunt of colonial subjugation for centuries of the sort of what our poor Indian friends have had to endure. We feel sorry for that. Perhaps it is this colonial agony and mental torture of the past that Indian friends seated in New Delhi wish to practice the same on the smaller states in its neighborhood the result of which is that all the countries in the region whose boundaries come about to touch with India feel threatened of the increasing Indian adventurism that is neither in conformity with the existing diplomatic behavior of states nor could be justified on any moral or diplomatic grounds. At best India's growing dreams to keep her neighbors in an all time alarm could be described as India's "inferiority complex" the medicine of which only Pakistan possesses. The message to the Indian leadership should be clear perhaps. A country that is ridden with such a complex and a country that nurtures an ambition to rule the entire world through its interventionist policy is aspiring for a seat at the Security Council. The countries that mean and possess a say in the world affairs must think twice on India's elevation to the grade that she is not fit for. By chance if the Indian state occupies a seat at the UN Security Council, the day of her distance from the ground to that prestigious seat would be a black day for the countries of the South Asia. The fact is that the wearer knows where the shoe pinches. Ask B'desh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and more subtly Bhutan what India meant to them? Thanks King Jigme is bearing the brunt but prefers silence. It is this King's style, let's presume. The invariable answer would be that friends could be changed not the neighbors. And alas! Such a neighbor whose territorial appetite and political intervention perhaps has no parallel in the history of the evolution of nations in the modern world has to be dealt with by this tiny Kingdom every now and then. It is not for nothing that one of the living legend of Nepali politics, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, the other day candidly told a media gathering that Nepali leaders' visiting New Delhi recently had no sense and that those who were there were either in the payrolls of the South Block or were simply working in favor of that country under disguise. Million dollar revelation indeed. No where beggars in the word cross their own territories for begging save Nepal. Nepali political beggars are seen more often than not loitering around their masters in New Delhi and abroad seeking for their support to get considerable size of political alms in Nepal. In conclusion, India this time exhibited its true picture and color while meeting Nepali leaders. The neighboring country , a great country indeed if she maintained that position handed over by their own forefathers, showed that she counted much in Nepali politics. This is her inner ambition indeed. In doing so India signaled Nepal and its monarch that Nepal could be twisted any time if the former so wished. India, however, could not hide this time around that she have had "excellent" relations with the Nepali Maoists whom she had dubbed terrorists much ahead of Nepal declaring the same. The tussle in between the two top hats of Nepali insurgency did expose India's intimate and inseparable linkages with a section of the insurgency. It is perhaps keeping in mind of this "unexposed" fact that the Americans and the British told India to take the Nepali matter seriously and play a role positively. The satire that was hidden in the US and the UK's handing over this onerous task to India was meant to expose India to the hilt in the comity of the nations. However, India did not understand the hidden message of its two bigger and respected partners. Instead it took this as a prize, which it was not. It was only a ploy to embarrass India and the latter felt elevated. Now that the UK and the British friends must have got the point as to which country on earth was supporting Nepali insurgency. It is not for nothing that Nepali King is reported to have hinted a select group of Nepali journalists that the "world now knew as to which country had been supporting the Maoists". This means that Nepali monarch knows now the details of India machinations in Nepal and in its affairs. One simple advice to India: Behave in a friendly manner. Respect neighboring nations. Honor the sentiments of the Nepalese. Try to preserve the Nepali love and respect for what we have unfailingly for India as a neighboring nation. Your words and deeds must not differ. Don't commit Himalayan blunders of the sort you did this time by embracing the Nepali leaders as if they were your national heroes. Think that the Nepali leaders who could not honor their own motherland can in no way be for your utility. Indeed they will serve you until you fill their pockets with scholarships and other material interests. Source: From the Weekly Telegraph