It's been a very embarrassing moment for the country with the British foreign minister's press briefing that the Indira Gandhi government had sought and received British advice regarding the conduct of the emotionally touchy, 'Operation Bluestar' in 1983. For the Congress party, it's an unparalleled embarrassment and it remains to be seen as to how it wriggles out of the situation because it's incumbent to provide answers to the people of this country. Where it seems to have committed a grave error was when its so called 'smart backroom managers' had briefed Rahul Gandhi not to apologise for the unfortunate anti-sikh riots of 1984 as an aftermath of Mrs Indira Gandhi's assassination, during his last interview with Arnab Goswami on Times Now.
It's my firm belief that, left to himself, he might have been more than honest like anyone else from his generation and would have tendered an apology. And we, emotionally gullible Indians, would have lapped it up without inhibitions.
And here comes the meat of my thoughts for the day. All national secrets must be declassified and made available in the public domain for the people to know as to how certain decisions were taken at the highest level. The reason, always, would be that the government of the day had arrived at a particular decision - however difficult for anyone of us to understand and comprehend because we never had the total picture -
keeping the national good in mind!
By pushing such information into the public domain, it would also help the coming generations to learn from their elders' mistakes and take correct decisions and never to repeat them. In this context to cite an example, I'm of the opinion that keeping the lessons learnt from the Sino-Indian conflict of 1962 - to be specific, the Henderson-Brooke's report - a continuing mystery is a grave error. The coming generations should be able to analyse our strengths and weaknesses and get a clear vision as to what were the mistakes committed during that lost war despite heroic battles waged by the men in uniform in the face of great adversity.
And there are many more such information that're waiting to tumble out.
Tailpiece.
I'd like to pitch in for a period of 25 years after which, declassification of classified material must happen as a matter of course. Because, come what may ultimately, "truth will out".
It's my firm belief that, left to himself, he might have been more than honest like anyone else from his generation and would have tendered an apology. And we, emotionally gullible Indians, would have lapped it up without inhibitions.
And here comes the meat of my thoughts for the day. All national secrets must be declassified and made available in the public domain for the people to know as to how certain decisions were taken at the highest level. The reason, always, would be that the government of the day had arrived at a particular decision - however difficult for anyone of us to understand and comprehend because we never had the total picture -
keeping the national good in mind!
By pushing such information into the public domain, it would also help the coming generations to learn from their elders' mistakes and take correct decisions and never to repeat them. In this context to cite an example, I'm of the opinion that keeping the lessons learnt from the Sino-Indian conflict of 1962 - to be specific, the Henderson-Brooke's report - a continuing mystery is a grave error. The coming generations should be able to analyse our strengths and weaknesses and get a clear vision as to what were the mistakes committed during that lost war despite heroic battles waged by the men in uniform in the face of great adversity.
And there are many more such information that're waiting to tumble out.
Tailpiece.
I'd like to pitch in for a period of 25 years after which, declassification of classified material must happen as a matter of course. Because, come what may ultimately, "truth will out".
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