India First

On Pakistani Actors featuring in Indian Movies (Originally published on FaceBook in Oct-16) In recent weeks much has been spoken, shouted, written and done (in the form of physical action) over banning/boycotting employment of Pakistani actors, and their movies in India. There are compulsions as well as wrongs on both sides – the Pakistani actors and movie making Indians. The issue has been “resolved” after a Constitutional authority had to negotiate it simply to avoid violence in his state. Here are a few thoughts… Firstly, let’s look at Pakistani’s unwritten policy towards India. Four wars on India by them have made it amply clear to them that they cannot defeat India in conventional warfare, in wars they have declared on us. So, decades ago the Pakistan Army decided to make export of mass murder a state policy. Since my childhood days to now, Indians have been killed – by bullets and bombs – in accordance with the policy of bleeding India with a “thousand cuts”. India being ...