Letter of the month

I received the following letter in response to my column about the U.S.'s nuclear agreement with India. I've divided it into paragraphs to make it more readable. Otherwise, it's unedited.

Greetings,

Good try being a critic of US-India nuclear deal Andisheh, but let me take this opportunity to enlighten you on India.

You mentioned that India is a 'rogue' nuclear state. India was never a rogue nuclear state because India never used or intended to use its nuclear power for anything other than peaceful purposes, unless invading country leaves us no option. Every country has a sovereign right to have a deterrent. When China and Pakistan, it's two neighbors have nuclear weapons, why can't India have them. For your reference China tested its first weapon in the early 60s. No pranks, Check it out

You said India refused to sign NPT and failed to mention why that was the case. NPT acknowledges any country that had nuclear weapons before 1967 and restricts them from transferring technology, weapons and so on and so forth, but the point you missed is that the five countries which had nuclear weapons by 1967 included China, so the NPT was automatically unacceptable to India. Do your research ….

Indians are considered peace loving. Read about Gandhi who is inspiration to Martin Luther King and South African leader Nelson Mandela. An Indian Muslim painter MF Hussein, living in Hindu dominated country, painted nude pictures of Hindu goddesses. Indians protested peacefully, but not in a violent fashion. Think of this done by a non-Muslim in a Muslim country. I don’t have to explain more about this! …

Looks like you need to look up the meaning of 'moksha'. It doesn't mean "match made in heaven". India is giving Mangoes for nuclear deal, not in exchange for arms, isn’t so sweet? Definitely, “king of fruit”, is better than “fruit of the desert“. Also you probably need to taste Indian mangoes, so you probably won't write biased articles like this one in a bad taste. Taste them.

For your kind information, India does have sufficient nuclear resources, and technology. All India taking help is for generating electricity for domestic purposes. No Joke, Know India's strength in technology!

You said India is the biggest arms importer in the developing world - you definitely need to recheck your research on that. China is the biggest arms importer in the world according to the International arms monitors and prior to that Saudi Arabia was the biggest arms importer.

Pakistan is also one of the largest importers of arms. I know for obvious reasons you didn’t mention that “Terror sponsored Nation”. Don’t pretend, you didn’t know that ……

What you missed to mention is that India is the largest democracy in the world, again, India never aggressed any country ever, and India has the second largest Muslim population in the world and has had 3 Muslim presidents so far and the world's most tolerant nation.

India is a democratic country, unlike Iran, ruled by religious fundamentalists. India's Prime Minister is a Sikh, President is a Muslim, and Congress Party president is a Christian from Italy, though 85% of the population is Hindus. No other country has this kind of democracy where a non-majority religion holding all three high posts. Like America, it is multi-cultural, multi-religion, multi-language, multi-ethnic.

Of course, it’s hard to explain from other part of the world uncivilized world where they cannot even uncover their head and face, what a democracy in turn means free! dom.

Seriously, know what freedom means

America is getting stronger not just because it’s strength lies in defense, but by winning friends. Your strength lies in winning friends, not radical ones. India is doing the same thing. Some part of the world is jealous of that. Gotcha, Baby.
You probably are not aware that most major nations such as France, Germany, Italy and UK have already endorsed the deal.

Your writing what is known as "yellow journalism". Write your articles based on research and give your readers a balanced view, mentioning facts or stick to photography.

Hope you enjoyed it,
Sri M.