1 year, 7 months ago

Scan the internal dimension on the road to 2024

As India rejoices over the success of its moon mission, and is set to host the G-20 summit, it might be useful for its leaders to heed lessons from the Chandrayaan mission, viz., that “instead of focusing on achieving success, we focussed on eliminating failures”. Manipur may be seen by the uninitiated as a minor blip on India’s security horizon, but it does in many ways reflect the microcosm of problems that affect the entire northeast. Hence, India’s false sense of security created by the absence of a major terror attack for quite some time now will need to be revisited. India has to be careful to ensure that polarisation along communal lines does not lead to a situation where India’s current image as a bastion of democratic virtues is sullied. Beginning with the Manipur cauldron to the latest communal violence in Nuh, apart from the intrinsic threat of right-wing terror and Naxalite violence, there exists a broad band of incipient problems that could coalesce into something more frightening.

The Hindu

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