Of thick hides and soft underbelly - P R Ramesh

...Patil is part of a government that has internalised the tripe that it is poverty, inadequate education and lack of development that breeds terrorism. The government leadership is naïve enough to believe that the country can get rid of the problem through Sachar committee recommendations, a few scholarships in universities and providing first right to resources. If the government and its cronies were to be believed, a bit of education and some prosperity will wean jehadis away from their current aim of the establishment of a world-wide Caliphate. Anyone who questions this dim-witted approach is termed a sub-human or at best, a rightist reactionary, whose voice should not be heard. ..

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