I cannot understand why some of us are slobbering at the mouth over China"s discomfiture over the Tibet issue.
We should remember first of all ,that we, like most countries around the world, have recognized the fact of China"s suzerainty over Tibet inspite of having given the Dalai Lama refuge in our country.
Secondly, we should remember that we Indians are not as homogenetically secure as we would like to think or even imagine considering the fact that there is so much similar unrest brewing in the North (Kashmir) and the Northeast of our country.
Our country, as it now is, thanks to the British, is too big to become the gendarme of the United States vis a vis China in exchange for a few watts of extra electricity in the not too near future, promised by the Indo-US nuclear deal; the fruits of which the progeny of the rich in our country may enjoy in the future at the expense of protracted poverty of the general mass of our people.
We should ever remind ourselves that the rather tenuous thread of Hinduism that seemingly holds our country together can be rent asunder more easily than the cultural bonds of suzerainty between China and Tibet.
Our government has so far done well not to exacerbate relations with China over the matter of Tibet; but it is disheartening all the same to see that the so called mainstream media, both print and electronic, gleefully licking the boots of the West, especially the Americans.
