Peace On the Borders Of Insanity

Peace On the Borders Of Insanity


Its a historic day,India will play Pakistan in what will hopefully the
first complete tour in 14 years.As i have always said,my generation
has always got the best of sport and it just keeps getting better.

I believe i've watched a bit of sports and the hue and cry about this
series being a peace initiative is generously naive.The Indo-Pak
conflict is primarily about Kashmir which we'll never get back the way
it was,and about cross border terrorism which is now far widespread
then Pakistan to just pull the wires and de-plug it.

Sports is a great ambassador but in this case,lets just focus on
having some great matches.Peace through cricket is just another cheap
BJP trick of garnering votes.I for one believe that India will win a
closely fought series,not as much as because of our cricketing talent
but due to the fact that elections are round the corner and the Indian
government cannot have the dumb India shining perspective lose any sheen.

If you go through the events that have resulted as a consequence of
the Indo-Pak conflict ,it'll hit you that all of it is just cheap
politics.False patriotism just like sex,sells a lot.Not a single
leader has yet been determined to bring peace in the valley and the
lives that have been lost ,have been fueling the dark fires of the
governments formed and vanquished.

A peaceful solution to Kashmir will be divinding it into 2
parts,another partition.Then it'll suddenly hit us that what we were
actually fighting for has been taken for us ,as for them they'll get
what they were playing for.But will it make the separatists happy,my
guess is no.Partitions never make anyone happy is what Humans should
have learned by now.

Lets watch this series as a good dose of cricketing adrenaline and
keep the filth of politics away from the sport which has been in a lot
of turmoil.Theres nothing which captures this country more then the
sound of the willow and lets succumb to the passion of the sport and
not of the underlying themes which have discrept as political ambitions.

Pleasure,Naviin.