Ritesh, valid points. However, your arguments hold little ground when we are discussing Pakistan and cultural exchanges between the two countries. You talked about the after-effects, I merely asked OR I ask even now, why terrorism/terrorists from Pakistan are killing innocent Indians? And why should we entertain them? Is there any need?
Yes, our Country is run by self loathed losers, but that does not give Pakistan the right to train and send in terrorists to kill our citizens, in the first place.
Mate I certainly didn't bring terrorism in this discussion, I was reacting to an ongoing discussion and I am not only talking about after effects but factors on which we directly have control on but we hardly ever reflect on or do something about those.
It was time we the Indians within India stopped talking the language of our political class which has vested interests on blaming everything outside, on which our country, you and I have little to no control and which becomes an easy escape route for our rather wily political class. An excuse which has fooled us far many more times than it should ever have, how many more times do we have to keep getting fooled over and over again and yet not learn? Earlier there used to be the crap talk of
spirit of the city where the needy next day of a blast/terror attack used to be on the road earning bread and butter, thankfully atleast that has been done away with!
What do we as Indians have control on? Internal security or terror training camps in pakistan? Who is responsible for strengthening this security, an Indian who has been tasked up to do it or a Pakistani who finds loopholes and penetrates within? Who is responsible for not figuring out and fixing those loopholes at the earliest, an Indian or a Pakistani? What are/were our agencies doing when Pakistanis come/came to india to recruit terrorists or when home grown terrorists head/ed overseas, get/got in touch with those Pakistanis, get/got training, return/ed home, go/went on a recruitment drive?
Why is it that we wake up only when a blast/terror attack has happened and then as an after effect we direct our frustrations on Pakistanis who were smart enough to do all that they did but never show the same frustration back on how badly we as a country messed up the whole thing something which was allowed to happen right under our supposedly watchful eyes by our own, and with all those guys tasked up to secure the country (politicians and babus alike)going on a media overdrive to put the blame again on outside factors even when these people were found inefficient/incompetent/lazy or whatever in delivering what they were supposed to do. And when all of these things have happened how is it we never hold these people accountable, on the contrary reward them with plush postings?
Thankfully our army doesn't function like that or is full of excuses which our population would conveniently buy. Each time they find nonsense of the scale happening they immediately court martial the concerned person and rectify the loopholes where ever they be and no matter how big a price to pay in bargain. May be our democracy needs to learn a thing or two from the men in uniform!
The day this country starts calling a spade a spade, starts taking responsibility of all that happens in this country and starts doing something about all that, a lot of problems would have gone, Pakistan or no Pakistan! Pakistan will be able to do only that much and that "that much" then can be well taken care of through international diplomacy but not the way we go about dealing with it right now where we within find no faults of our own.
Lastly just as few others are saying, solution doesn't remain in isolating india from their talent but to squeeze out all the good they possess and let them rot with the leftovers if they so wish. If india were to do that not only will we directly benefit in terms of varied talent, a much larger base of international audience, soft international diplomacy, compounding effects on economy of which we are in dire need but crush whatever little competition that is there and become a hub for excellence.
