After a long while..

Its been over a year now since I last wrote something. It has been a long year where personally it hasnt been going that great. There have been many sleepless nights and so on so forth.I have also noticed in this time that a lot of people (some I like, some I despise) blog very diligently. I have no such desire.I belong when it helps me to collect my thoughts. If someone doesnt like something that I say, please move on. As I try to write this,I wonder where should I begin. I have no clue. But I will start with something that these days keeps my mind engaged and helps me focus on something. It is about the interconnected nature of different events that happen in the world. Lets first focus on what the west especially England has done in the past to the world because of which various countries are still paying the price. India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Israel, Kenya, South Africa and the list goes on. All these countries have paid a huge price for what the West unleashed on them. I am not endorsing what the fundamentalists are doing to retaliate but I just feel that there is something more that we need to understand, to analyze. I thought about where to start analyzing. The first thought obviously was India, where the partition left scars that are yet to heal. But I have ultimately decided to start with Kenya. Primarily because I am in Africa (South Africa to be precise) and I also happen to be reading a book on Kenya at the moment. The idea will be to trace what the West did to further its own selfish interests and how today a lot of people think that non-Western countries are their own enemies. Personally, this is also meant to be some sort of a diary where I would keep all my thoughts collected on the World and its past.
Onwards then.

Was Indira Gandhi partially responsible for Rajiv Gandhi's assassination?

This post has a connection to the previous post where I was trying to find patterns in history. The way US intruded in Iraq and Afghanistan and ended up creating Al-Qaeda. Lets look closer home.
LTTE was funded by Indian govt ,in the initial days at least, coz of the alleged pro-Pakistani posture that the Sri Lankan Govt had adopted. Who was leading India at that point of time? Indira Gandhi. So India did the same perennial mistake which somehow seems to be at the bottom of all major terrorism issues in the world today: Governments shud not interfere in the affairs of other countries esp by funding any organization that is armed! You do that and you have a virtual guarantee, it will backfire. Ask US. Ask Pakistan. And now I say, ask India.
LTTE then went on to assassinate Rajiv Gandhi. What would have happened if India had opposed LTTE all along? We dont know. But wouldn't it be fair to say then that a part of the blame for Rajiv Gandhi's death lies on Indira Gandhi? I at least cnt think of it in any other way.
But the problem with all of us is: We just dnt learn from our mistakes in the past! We just steadfastly refuse to do so.