‘Sir, will China invade us?’ ‘We hear China has increased activities on the border’. Chinese consolidation activities on the LAC have prompted such reactions and fears. Lot of such inquiries from citizens within and outside India. Why? Bodies floating down Ganga, mass graves, lack of oxygen, medicines or hospital beds, botched vaccination program, uninterrupted work on Central Vista - all these have eroded our political capital immensely and seeded such doubts. Our national institutions are being compared to ‘rottweilers’ in the media. Economy? Unemployment figures and stock markets – both rattling up. Strangest combination. Rich getting richer and poor getting poorer. An ominous divergence which bodes ill. Leadership? Kis Chidiya ka naam hai bhai? National level paralysis in responding to the second wave. Erosion in comprehensive national power. Many have never experienced India being so weak. Nor did I for that matter. This frightening experience ...
Sir, Genghis Khan & Kublai Khan were not islamic. They were animist and buddhist respectively and the Chinese were never ruled by an islamic ruler. I think there's this common misconception of associating "Khan" with islamic tribes as many of the central asian tribes/regions that were decimated by the great Khans took the honorific of their mongol conquerors and were/became islamic over the course of time but, the mongols (of mongolia) stayed animist/buddhist.
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