Papa Don’t Preach..!

India watches shocked, as a powerful tyrant uses muscle, might, and maximum force to pulverize and bully a smaller country. Even as we are appalled, outraged and horrified, even as we look across the ocean at the UN and expect that supposedly mighty institution representing the world to put an end to the strong arm, Russian judo expert and his ambitions, we see our own country politely abstaining from chastising the bully.
Yes, we have our reasons, because a huge ninety percent of our arms and ammunition come from Putin’s country, but this would have been the time when the world realizing how much we relied on Russia would have treated us with new respect, had we stood up for justice and peace!
We didn’t and lost a golden opportunity to show a different India!
Even as I am disappointed with our stand, I’m reminded of a similar episode: Nariman Point in Mumbai, boasts of a few exceptional restaurants, and I remember vividly, sitting in one a decade ago, where I’d been invited for lunch, listening to a bearded, bald and blustering chartered accountant who handled religious trusts and their skirmishes with the charity commissioner. He was supposedly a leader of the community, where when called to deliver his Sunday fire and brimstone sermons, he tried to make surgical strikes into the complacent hearts of his listeners.
“Bob,” he said, “I needed to meet with you alone, to tell you that you would be an asset to any spiritual organization you join! Would you care to join one for management and businessmen which I have started? We need good, honest, upright men like you!”
“But why,” I asked quietly, “didn’t you say this last week, when you illegally attended a board meeting and instead of standing up for the financial irregularities I revealed to the board, you spoke against me? Where was your voice then? Why now? Why alone?”
He looked away, and I knew that since that same trust or its subsidiaries was one of his clients, he had decided to circumvent the truth and defend the guilty to keep his business going!
Much like what our country did in the UN right?
But if we are going to export yoga to the world, and other powerful ways of meditation we also need to show the world, that such techniques make us a strong, uncompromising people.
If that man, quoting from his holy book, thundered from pulpits lines such as ‘Be brave and courageous!” then he also needed to show if he could stand by the truth even if it meant losing business.
He couldn’t. We as a nation didn’t.
I remember that meal, but hardly tasted the food he paid for, because all the time my lips were whispering lines from an old song, “Papa don’t preach!”
India is now a strong nation. Let’s show our strength not by politically correct decisions anymore, but by standing for the ‘gospel truth’!
Then and only then will we win respect..!

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8 thoughts on “Papa Don’t Preach..!”

  1. It takes courage to stand up for the truth despite what it might cost us That courage comes from integrity and faith as once we acknowledge and submit to the power of God, we no longer need to fear the world

  2. Bob, the world has turned hypocritical and the number of fencesitters is growing. Nations and individuals can do anything to save their skin. There is a dichotomy between what we preach and practice, a sad story.

  3. It’s just a case of reaping what you sow.. Ukraine has always voted against India in the UNSC.
    Truth and Justice don’t work in international politics. And by the way you can’t trust NATO to defend you.

  4. This is one __ bearded, taking down another… Jokes apart. We are all hypocrites in our own circumstances. Preaching, writing is one; living it out is completely another. Nevertheless India should have done what’s right in a crisis, inspite of what Ukraine has done in peace times.

  5. This is not religious fight that you have to stand for truth and peace there is no use of it in present political scenario.

  6. Thanks for taking a bold stand Bob… Silence is Violence and India cannot afford to be silent when it’s friend Russia is commiting blatant genocide… true friends call out each other when one is on the wrong path, as “Perfect love casts out fear.” As Martin Luther King Jr once said: “In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

  7. Only one plane was sent by India to bring students back. Now our embassy is ignoring the calls of those stranded in Ukraine. I saw a message by a Catholic organization that through the Congress if contacted they can be helped. Some nos. are given to be called

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