A thoughtful write up by a retired army officer on Demonetisation

Wake up India, your enemies are watching you squirm and crib at every hardship you face.

Our enemies, especially China and its side kick Pakistan, are watching with extreme glee at the way some of our mainstream politicians and their foot soldiers are complaining and opposing any action of the Govt for the national good.

They are assessing your psyche as a nation.

Take it straight, we come across as a very soft nation, where the slightest inconvenience to our daily routine unsettles us and we hit the social media with bizarre allegations.

Our enemies must be thrilled and our friends, around the globe must be rather amused that this is a country, which cannot suffer any disturbance to their comfortable existence.

Now imagine if our enemies were to start a war on us which results in death, devastation and total disruption of lives. No railways, no metros, no ATMs and rationed food.

We’ll have our politicians going to town asking to wave a white flag instead of defending the nation at any cost. That’s because we as a country, especially the self serving politicians, would rather malign ourselves than be resolute in fighting till the last man, last round.

By the way the Communists did this in 1962, when the Chinese attacked us. They faulted the Govt of the day for inviting the wrath of Mao’s country. What a shame?

The slight disruption to our comfortable life, due to demonetization, has been shouted at from the roof tops of mainstream political party offices and with childish antics of a dynastic “Heir Apparent”.

Some politicians are behaving like “fifth columnists”, ready to sabotage every genuine effort of the Govt, where as the common man is braving it out..

Damn it all, this is not Modi’s Govt. It is your Govt elected by a majority. If you want to pin Modiji down do it, but not at the cost of our nation.

Watch out, our enemies will take advantage of our weak psyche.

We have ourselves to blame, if we do not rise to be a super power, despite a surfeit of resources of all sorts.

By the way, I have stood in queues for over two hours a day for the last 3 days and got my allotted amounts exchanged/ deposited.

I had the misfortune to see men, who joined the queue a few minutes after me, tearing their hair and shouting at the bank manager for not letting them get their share before others. They behaved as if apocalypse is just a minute away.

This piece is written out of sheer frustration by an Indian, who has walked the earth of this country for more than six decades and who once donned the OG with pride.

It begs an introspection and reflection on why and how India could be colonised so easily for so long.