Defense, Strategy & The Battle For Sanskrit of Rajiv

Malhotra
by Sati Shankar

Let me begin with a news,

"The Government has decided to form a new Notional Defense council which
will oversee all the three wings, army, air and navy and to make most
effective decision on the quality, procurement and placement of strategic
weapons in the country. The Government has decided to take benefit of
experience of certain senior members from the Intelligence services of our
hostile countries, who will be on board on deputation from their respective
Governments fully empowered. In doing so the Government hopes that this
will make the nation perfectly secured hereafter."
After reading it I was shocked. I tried to raise my voice how can
representatives from other inimical countries be on Board and security and
defense strategy of the country will be totally compromised thereby making
it suicidal.
I ran from door to door, I called for help from prominent countrymen and
groups to support and help save the country from this suicidal act.
The response I got was," you must not worry much on such matters, it seems
you are ignorant of the history of your own country you see, we have been
having foreigners as rulers here earlier also, our country has been ruined and
destroyed ruthlessly several times, and see, we are still taking breath and
happy in our villages and mohullas.
Also we must not get troubled with things like national freedom and national
defense etc, all these geographies, geopolitical boundaries, and whatever is
contained therein are all just phenomenal, (bhautic) we must look and
endeavor for transcendental freedom (adhyatmic) where there is no dukha of
any type.
Then I ran to our defense experts so I can gather professional criticism of
what the govt is doing for national defense, and to my surprise, I got
bombarded there also with questions, what expertise did I have to be
qualified enough to identify the issue and raise my voice, did I know anything
about defense strategies, arms and battle tactic?
Sati Shankar, www.satishankar.com New Delhi, India, 28/03/2016

You know, I was given a list of famous defense experts and was asked if I had
ever heard their names. I confessed , no, I am a common man want to save
my country and its heritage,
I just have what rudimentary military training is given to NCC cadets. I was
hooted and declared disqualified for the campaign itself and thrown out.
I ask my learned friends here, Is there any solution for such solution?
Every idea, every instrument has its proper place and condition to be
applicable. Sword and needle cannot be substitutes. Prescribing or taking
wrong medicine may be as fatal and as foolish as to start writing a poem
when one fails to defuse an active time bomb. We don't open preaching in
the battle field.
Our history is full slaughters and genocides and psycho-socio-cultural
wreckage as instances.
Is our country so empty of capability and pride that it has no alternative
other than keeping hostile decision makers on its Board of national defense
council?
I hope, I have been careful enough so my post has not hurt anybody here
and is well within Group Manager's brackets so far.
Now, my one line question is, "are we totally dead to defend our own
heritage and protect it from enemies of the tradition well equipped with the
modern weaponry?"
I think the same is the question which has been raised by Mr Rajiv Malhotra,
in his "The Battle for Sanskrit" which I term "The Battle for Sanskriti" for
better,to assimilate even those who do not feel as belonging to Sanskrit but
believe and wish to preserve Indian Heritage and Dharma.

Note: News above is fictitious and for illustration as analogy to the situation
in question. note what is written in devnagari to not to be misguided
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Sati Shankar, www.satishankar.com New Delhi, India, 28/03/2016