Months have
passed since this blog saw a post on its virtual wall and still readers are
hoping to see something worthwhile here. I am honoured. With this post, I’m
hoping to be back on the Blogosphere with the same zeal that I entered into it
with.
The world is going through a rough phase, a
very rough one. Humanity as a whole today has the curse of battling two
adversaries, both capable enough to wipe them out or corrupt them to a degree
beyond which it would be virtually impossible to go back to life as it knows
it. Both are also incapable of shaking the human spirit and will if world
chooses to come together and fight the pincer attack that Mother Nature and
human nature have encircled us with.
The two-pronged attack brought about by the
pride of man and his greed is a test of human commitment and co-operation at
the highest level. This test can either force us to withdraw into ourselves
even more or come together to fight an enemy of the entire race.
The Ebola virus. Credit: Google Images. |
On one hand is the dreaded virus that has
affected more than 10,000 people and threatens to overrun the human race if not
contained and decimated. On the other hand is the radical religious group that
threaten to plunge the world into the third World War in order to establish its
caliphate in the Middle-East. Between the both of them, they are capable enough
to make sure that we are either decimated or at the very least, set back by
decades in terms of advancement. And, if one were to use the other in
propagating its means to achieve its ends, it’s going to be even more dangerous
because if the virus has killed so many people in its natural form, it is
unimaginable to think what havoc its weaponized form could cause.
And at this time, when international
co-operation is in the best interests of the world, India, or rather its government
has decided not to be part of any coalition battling these killers. Neither has
it sent forces to battle the terrorist threat, nor has it sent medical
personnel to battle the Ebola virus.
Proposed Islamic State Caliphate. Credit: Google Images. |
The Islamic State’s influence has already
reached India and it is just a matter of time before Ebola does and nobody who
is Indian needs to be reminded of the fact that we are not in a position to
contain an epidemic of such proportions, and we will not be in such a position
for a very long time. Help begets help. If not out of compassion, the Indian
government needs to send help to fight on both these fronts to make sure that
they never reach our doorstep.
We are non-aligned in war, but need we be
non-aligned in every international coalition? Can we not recognize the need to
take active prevention measures before an action by the enemy forces a reaction
that may be too late to prevent the loss of life that is inevitable in a nation
such as ours?
For long we have remained the Switzerland
of Asia but perhaps it is now time to recognize that if we want to be
recognized as the South-Asian powerhouse we claim to be, we need to step up and
do something to prove it. This is not a battle for the USA or Africa; this is
the battle for mankind.
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