Former IPS officer Prakash Singh, who once headed Uttar Pradesh police and also the Border Security Force. In an interview to the Asian Age on Sunday used a very telling word for the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). The word he used was ‘emasculated’.
Prakash Singh knows what he is talking about or atleast we should believe him because unlike scores of police officers who after joining the IPS become as docile as the bahu of some chauvinistic thakur in interior Bihar, Prakash Singh took the government all the way to the Supreme Court over some technical issues afflicting the police.
The men responsible for this emasculation, Singh says, is a whole range of Prime Ministers starting with that absolute joker IK Gujral. Now Gujral is a bit like that Pakistani minister-turned-human rights campaigner Ansar Burney. He gets more positive reportage in Indian papers than probably any other Pakistani politician but does it change anything about him except that he is a first rate joker.
IK Gujral is the kind who completely forgets Chanakya’s sane counsel that respect for nations/states/ kings come when the benevolence they exhibit or want to is backed by ruthlessness unmatched to set things right.
As a journalist, I think the RAW is an organisation that gets a lot of its teeth because of the things written about it rather than the things they do on the field. Even officers in the police force will talk about the RAW as if they are some vicious cousin of the Mossad. Then we hear that a host of Indian terrorists are ensconced in safe havens in nations within our reach and years pass by even before as much as a stone is thrown in the direction of their well-fortified residences. Picture that with what the Mossad did to one of the scum of the Hezbollah in Dubai?
I think at the end of the day we are just a sorry nation in the mould of some Central African republics or Bangladesh closer home. And we seriously need to get less worked up after every blast because there isn’t much we can do about them.
After every blast, my colleagues from the newspaper world throw up the same names, the cops, unofficially agree, and then we move on with our stories till some idiot sitting somewhere rips open our heart once again with a bit of RDX, a bit of nails, and lot of guts and hate.
I think when Prakash Singh said the RAW has been emasculated, he probably meant the country.
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Great article..frankly i had to read twice to understand the depth of it..guts to address a politician as an idiot..truly appreciated..few do that.. atleast i wont..
I must agree its a brave article.and it says what a lot of us always wanted to say:we are a terribly weak nation trying to make a lot of noise.If a 26/11 could not change us i am afraid nothing ever can.
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