Often the strongest nations are those that construct for themselves some evil “other”, requiring periodic correction by force — India’s recent “surgical strike” is an instance of this situation. Often the strongest nations are those that construct for themselves some evil “other”, requiring periodic correction by force — India’s recent “surgical strike” is an instance of this situation. And that often the strongest nations are those that construct for themselves some evil “other”, requiring periodic correction by force — India’s recent “surgical strike” is an instance of this situation. In that context, it was most instructive to hear a snatch of aggressive upbraiding of a Pakistani participant by an well-known anchor whose anxieties on behalf of the nation are loud and clear. Such faux pas necessarily result from the anxiety to appropriate the ownership of the nation which belongs to all sections of the polity and all successive governments through history.

Source: Indian Express October 23, 2016 21:11 UTC