The Women Reservation's Bill.

The first reaction of mine, when I heard that the Women's Reservation Bill was being presented in Parliament yet again, was "Why was India divided, and why was Pakistan formed"? If Mr Nehru had given the Muslims reserved seats in Parliament, then India would not have been divided into India, and Pakistan. Why should ladies, be given the privilege of a seat in Parliament, without going through the ordinary parliamentary procedure?

Perhaps, the time will not come, when Muslim's, Bengali's, Maharashtrian's, will want reservations in Parliament, for their respective groups, but is Ms Sonia Gandhi carrying out the vision of Mr Nehru? What if it is insinuated, that Mr Nehru wanted the independence of India, because he wanted the nation to be obliged to the Congress Party, and he wanted himself to be the first Prime Minister of India, instead of Mohammad Ali Jinnah? Where does the wisdom of our founding fathers stand, on the tabling of this bill? Why should proud parliamentarians like Ms Brinda Karat, be given a seat in the Lok Sabha by default, if by chance, there is no candidate to the Lok Sabha, who is a woman, and also not her equal in caliber? I saw, some female cohorts of some women leaders,(or perhaps they were leaders themselves), acting like hooligans outside Parliament, demanding the implementation of the Women's Reservation Bill. How is the august house of Parliament, to treat some parliamentarians, because all of Parliament is not in concord? The Congress Party would make a martyr of Ms Sonia Gandhi, if she was forcibly ejected out of Parliament, and that is the fate of those, who will be ejected out of parliament before the debate on the bill. The main question of mine is, 'Why Have Reservations In Parliament', if there is no reservation for all the seats in Parliament? Is not the ideology of Mr Raj Thackeray vindicated, by this action of the ruling coalition? Where is Mr Thackeray wrong, when he wants all the people who apply for the Indian Railway job's in Mumbai, to be ethnic Maharashtrians?

General Observations on International Affairs.

What explains the rather complicated international and domestic policies of China? The leader Deng Xiaoping was not appreciated in the democratic nations, for the suppression of the Tianamen Square uprising. It was, as if, the democracies expected more, from the leader. What was the preoccupation of the Chinese leaders, during the Tianamen Square uprising? This is very simple, the unity, and integrity of The People's Republic of China. The danger then was, that those provinces of China, which did not have the same view as the Chinese Communist Party, would want to have an independent national identity, apart from China. We must remember, that The People's Republic of China, was formed because of the union of many parts of China, under the Chinese Communist Party. What if the Chinese Communist Party were not to exist? Would the provinces of China, then want independence, apart from the People's Republic of China? Does China have an identity which can unite her, apart from the Chinese Communist Party? Patriotism in China, is identified by patriotism to the form and mode of government. Deng Xiaoping knew, that it was easier to bring economic reforms to The People's Republic of China, than to change the identity of the Chinese state.

On another line of thought, what if India, and China were to resolve all differences, and if India were to be very cordial with the United States? Where would Pakistan be, strategically, without any strategic significance? China does not perhaps, see the consequences of such an instance, but the United States does. Pakistan would have no need for the United States, or China, because the United States or China, would not need Pakistan. What, then? Pakistan deliberately plays on the differences between Pakistan and India. She needs to see the differences between the states of Pakistan, and India. As far as I can see, Pakistan, cannot influence the relation between India, and China, presently, except by putting emphasis on her strained relations with India, vis-a-vis the current relation between India and China, which is not to the advantage of Pakistan, and to the disadvantage of India.