India’s 66th Republic day will go down as one of nation’s
grandest and most special National Day celebrations ever . It’s not every day
that you have the leaders of the oldest and largest democracies on globe ,
share the ranks to witness the flourish of the largest democratic nation – the Constitution
of India .
The buzz meters got going when Prime Minister’s Office first dropped hints of the how big and special plans were on for the gala event , when an official affirmation of efforts and invite to get POTUS in India as chief guest for the first time appeared on microblogging site Twitter . And soon to follow was the White House to accept the honours , again on the same social networking domain . And since then , apprehensions and calculations of how big and different Republic Day India was going to witness took over the trends .
President Obama was going to be the creator of many firsts .
For a beginning , he was going to be the first POTUS to visit India twice in
tenure ; he was also the first US President to be chief guest of an Indian
National Day celebration ( or perhaps any National Day Celebration ) , and the
list went on . This visit was seen with varying lights , by different sections
. Whilst some saw this to be the mark of a greater India’s advent on-globe ,
some saw this to be the US finally moving on from partnering in-reliable nation
with a dual , biased policy approach to global terrorism , to a politically and
policy-wise stable India , some saw the intimacy in Namo-Obama ties to be the
cause for this gesture , whilst other saw POTUS’s inclination to our Nation’s
father to be the spark behind this .
Whatever the speak was , this trip attracted the vision of the globe to the sub-continent and so did it to the hardliners and massacre-specialists ( read terrorists ) . POTUS visit to India was a challenge , for the Indian intelligence , security forces , all in all to the Indian defence .
to be continued ……..
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