INDIA DECOUPLED OR UNHINGED ?

While people are needlessly debating whether we have decoupled from the US or will somehow, gods willing, escape the global financial meltdown, there is ample cause to feel proud of things right here at home. This has to do with the psychological decoupling we have achieved within the nation. In effect, we have unhinged ourselves from that embarassingly communal, violence-prone part of the nation. Not to mention the countless millions, the starving, the destitute, who never were part of of any financial system anyway. The latter, in fact, can be cited as sufficient proof that any global collapse will largely leave us untouched. Kudos to us.

Thus nuns can logically be raped, temples and churches understandably burnt and communal riots rationally erupt like pestilential boils across the face of the nation. But we genuinely feel it's not for us. It's someone else.

So, we dont quite understand even when the finance minister himself has to spell it out that neglecting weak people, will alienate to terrorist attacks. The news gets buried in two inches somewhere in the inside pages. If only the FM had said something financial-like, we understand that quite well. We have DECOUPLED. Grand new nation !