By Vishnu Makhijani
New Delhi– Indias rise is inevitable despite current pitfalls or past mistakes but for that electoral politics needs to be kept apart from macroeconomics and macro-strategic matters while greater synergy is required in civil-military matters and the country considers the instrument of military diplomacy to further national interests with many countries being governed by military/quasi military governments, says a new compilation of 19 scholarly articles on the roadmap ahead for the nation.
“Notwithstanding any current pitfalls or past mistakes made by the nation, India’s rise is inevitable. However, all governments in India must remember the lessons of Indian history down the ages, where lack of unity within had crippled India’s stability. An essentially diverse and large nation like India requires all its 1.3 billion people to march in unison and thus respect and celebrate its diversity and secularism,” writes Lieutenant General Kamal Davar (retd) as he distils the essence of the 19 articles in “Securing India’s Rise — A Vision for the Future” ((Bloomsbury).