03-04-2005, 12:16 AM
I dont agree with Gen Mehta at all. The endgame is NOT end of monarchy. That is just plain stupid. We are not talking about a country which is on the other side of the globe. where we can play the endgame and be done with it. We are talking about a country which is right next to ours. There can never be an endgame to this. Its an ongoing process. The endgame (if one really wants to insist) must be India's security - with or without monarchy - now, 50 yrs from now or 100 yrs from now. Fanatical adherence to democracy is as bad as islamism.