Tuesday, November 30, 2010

WIKILEAKS - SEPT 11 of world diplomacy?

Almost a dizzying release of a treasure trove of information of how the world's super power deals with every other country, leading to a massive recalibration on United States' part to reach out and revisit the foreign policy guiding united states for a long time. No wonder this release has been called the sept 11 of world diplomacy.
 Years of hard negotiations, delicate relationships, commitments from friends n foes alike, all laid bare in a matter of few hours. In many instances , of what were thought to be were mere conjectures were proved to be true . Now we would have the conspiracy theorists say "we told you so" or did we call them conspiracy theorists out of our own ignorance?.
Now the question most perplexing is, how could one man, one organization get away with this unscathed or are we waiting for another leak about United States' relations with Wikileaks!!!!

Monday, November 29, 2010

An Indian's take on Wikileaks

One of the most defining events in contemporary history. Never has the world witnessed ,the revelation of tens of thousands of documents which would otherwise have been cloaked in the veil of "confidentiality" or "secrecy" or "national security",warranting an existence away from the public eye when they are supposed to be on behalf of the public(what then is the purpose of democracy?)
   With this, Wikileaks has accomplished that duty which is incumbent on every citizen of the civilized world to demand and defend the precious little freedom in the world of murky politics riddled with double standards, dirty tricks and deception.
   Since enjoying immunity for long, diplomats sometimes get insensitive to their role, get away with blunt , reckless and even brutal assessments and the governments kept hoodwinking the public for a very long time forgetting the basic principle of accountability.
The revelations should serve as wakeup call to all the people entrusted with decision making powers to be transparent and honest in their dealings, as more and more people get empowered, the more and more vulnerable do the governments become!!