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Name of the Game
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Grace Srinivasan as
Noor in “Enemy of the
Reich: The Noor Inayat
Khan Story” conveys
the complex emotions
with a nuanced
understanding of the
young Sufi woman who
became a British spy
American
Princess Spy
Pak
Military
Culture
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Pakistan’s Dueling
Military Cultures
Name of
the Game
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threads, at a market in the northern Indian city of Chandigarh Aug. 9.
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perform prayers at a temple on
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Indian city of Chandigarh
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Independence Day celebrations in Delhi
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200-meter-long Indian national flag during
India's Independence Day celebrations in the
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Below right, college students with painted
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Krishna, is being celebrated across the country today. Left,
an Indian artist dressed as Hindu Lord Krishna takes part in
a play during celebrations to mark Janmashtami festival in
New Delhi Aug. 18. Below, students hold an idol of Hindu
Lord Krishna during the celebrations to mark Janmashtami
festival inside a school in the western Indian city of
Ahmedabad Aug. 16.
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poultry was set on fire during
a protest at Golaghat district
in the northeastern Indian
state of Assam Aug. 20.
Thousands of protesters in
the far-flung Indian state of
Assam defied a curfew and
attacked police in a fifth day
of unrest over a territorial
dispute with a neighboring
state.
Villagers move with
their belongings to safer
places in a boat through
the flooded areas of
Morigaon district in the
northeastern Indian
state of Assam Aug. 24.
The latest heavy rains
have caused landslides
and floods in many parts
of India and Nepal.
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Gurudwara authorities during his visit to a Gurudwara (Sikh temple) in New Delhi Aug. 25. Clegg is on a three-day visit
to India. Right, rabbi looks at the ceiling of room during the reopening ceremony of Nariman House, which was damaged
during the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai Aug 26.
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Above, a devotee immerses
an idol of the Hindu elephant
god Ganesh, the deity of
prosperity, in an artificial
pond during the ten-day-long
Ganesh Chaturthi festival in
Mumbai Aug. 30. Ganesh
idols are taken through the
streets in a procession
accompanied by dancing and
singing, and later immersed
in a river or the sea symbolizing a ritual seeing-off of his
journey towards his abode,
taking away with him the
misfortunes of all mankind.
Left, Devotees carry an idol
of Hindu elephant god
Ganesh, the deity of prosperity, during a procession
through the streets before
immersing it in the waters of
the Arabian Sea on the last
day of the Ganesh Chaturthi
festival in Mumbai Sept 8.
A devotee, center,
cries as others prepare
to immerse an idol of
Hindu god Ganesh,
the deity of prosperity,
on the banks of the
river Yamuna in New
Delhi Sept. 8.
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People take part in a religion
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northern Indian state of
Uttar Pradesh Aug. 29.
Australia's Prime Minister Tony
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right, after his ceremonial
reception at the forecourt of
India's presidential palace
Rashtrapati Bhavan in New
Delhi Sept. 5.
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her visit to the
Sabarmati river front in
the western Indian city
of Ahmedabad Sept. 17.
China's President Xi Jinping,
center, holds an umbrella as
he watches folk artists
perform while visiting the
Sabarmati river front along
with India's Prime Minister
Narendra Modi (2nd L) in the
western Indian city of
Ahmedabad Sept. 17. Xi
arrived in India as the two
Asian giants take steps to
boost commercial ties. China
has pledged to invest billions
of dollars in Indian railways,
industrial parks and roads,
but ties between the
nuclear-armed nations have
long been held back by
distrust, mostly over their
contested border.
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western Indian city of Ahmedabad Sept. 21. Right, Ram Singh
Chauhan, 62, shows his moustache, which he claims to be 5.4
meters (18 ft) long, during a ceremony in the western Indian
city of Ahmedabad Sept. 24. Chauhan, who holds the Guinness
World Record for the longest moustache, claims he has not
trimmed it since the age of 17.
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Kyoko, India's Ambassador to the United Nations Asoke Mukerji, and
Consul General of India in New York Dnanyeshwar Mulay and their
wives at the John F. Kennedy International Airport Sept. 26. Below,
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outside his hotel to welcome him.
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stage during the Global
Citizen Festival concert in
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Sept. 27.
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Modi, left, holds hands
with actor Hugh Jackman
on stage during the Global
Citizen Festival concert in
Central Park in New York
Sept. 27.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses Indian-Americans at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Sept. 28.
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India's Prime Minister Narendra
Modi simulcast on a giant screen in
New York Sept. 28.
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Swaraj, as Bill Clinton greets Modi during their meeting in
New York on Sept. 28. Left, Dr. Sudhir M. Parikh, publisher
of Desi Talk, greeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi
at a dinner reception hosted by India’s Ambassador to the
U.S. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the Taj Pierre in New
York on Sept. 28. While the two also met at the
dinner, this photo was taken when Dr. Parikh called on the
Prime Minister at the New York Palace Hotel on Sept. 27.
Below, Modi speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in
New York on Sept. 29.
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Princess
Spy
Cover Story
By Ela Dutt
Grace Srinivasan as Noor in
“Enemy of the Reich: The
Noor Inayat Khan Story”
conveys the complex emotions
with a nuanced understanding
of the young Sufi woman who
became a British spy
he hour-long docudrama “Enemy of the
Reich: The Noor Inayat
Khan Story” premiered
on television on PBS
this Sept. 9. The young
“matahari” was Noor
Inayat Khan, (1914-1943) an
Indian-American British spy during
the Nazi invasion of Europe, is
already famous in the United
Kingdom. Now she’s been introduced to American audiences. Unity
Productions Foundation, a nonprofit documentary company,
recruited a novice to do the part of
the brave British secret agent of
Indian-American descent. It was
pure coincidence and perhaps the
stars aligned to make it happen,
Grace Srinivasan, 23, a music student at Baltimore’s Peabody
Conservatory tells Desi Talk.
The docudrama has aired in
numerous theaters since February.
Srinivasan attended two of the
showings, one in Washington, D.C.
and the other in New Jersey.
“Both shows were sold out. And
the audience was so enthusiastic. It
was very surreal – people coming to
ask for my autograph!” Srinivasan
recalls. Her interview is marked by
a similar forthrightness.
Different Centuries,
Different Backgrounds
Alex Kronemer, the executive
producer of the show says
Srinivasan embodied the spirit of
Noor – that subtle mix of toughness
and gentleness, apart from the
same ethnicity – an Indian father
and a Caucasian mother. That’s
where the likeness ends. One hundred years ago Noor was born in
Moscow to a Sufi Muslim father
from India, and a white American
mother. She was brought up in
France in a Sufi school run by her
father. She also attended Sorbonne
University, and was a children’s
writer. Then they moved to
England, lived through World War
II, and she became a spy and secret
agent for the British secret service,
went behind enemy lines, was
betrayed by Nazi collaborators, was
caught but escaped
twice from her captors while imprisoned in Paris and
refused to reveal
the names of her
collaborators
despite being tortured.
She was
finally executed at the infamous Dachau
concentration camp in Germany.
Noor was the first woman
radio/wireless operator to be sent
into Nazi-occupied Paris; she was
the longest survivor in that role – a
record 3 months according to a
biographer, and 4 months according to the PBS website, more than
any man had ever survived in that
role.
Shrabani Basu, author of
Princess Spy, the definitive biography on Noor published in
2006, says witnesses corroborated that Noor’s last word before
dying was “Liberte.”
Compare that to the life of Srinivasan who
has not seen any conflict at close quarters.
She was born in Washington, D.C., to
Suresh Srinivasan, a graduate of the Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi, of Tamil
descent; and mother Nancy Hanna of suburban Pittsburgh. Both parents are into
numbers, dealing with math and statistics
who met while working at NASA in
Greenbelt, Maryland.
Grace Srinivasan grew up in Silver Spring,
Maryland, was home-schooled because of
her rigorous ballet schedule, and went to
George Washington University where she
did music but also math, science and biolo-
gy. She hopes to make classical singing her
career. She does not have the same exposure to Indian culture that Noor had,
though she did go to India once when she
was 17 and relatives from India visit occasionally.
India in Her Life
Her grandfather is still in India and family from India does visit occasionally,
Srinivasan says, but, “My Dad didn’t teach
me Tamil,” though relatives
all speak in Tamil when they
call from India or visit her
home, and she admits, “I do
have a language barrier.”
She is a lifelong vegetarian
as both her parents are. “My
mom was a vegetarian even
before she met Dad,”
Srinivasan says. She loves
Indian food.
Unlike Noor’s family,
Srinivasan has a secular
background. But she sings
in a Catholic church, St.
Stephen Martyr in
Washington, D.C., on weekends to make some money.
“It’s my job. I’m very lucky,”
she says.
“I’m not religious, my Dad
was not religious, and our
family isn’t. But I do want to
“Noor was
really connected
to all aspects of
her family. She
embraced all of
it. I realized I
hadn’t and
would like to be
more that way. I
don’t know how,
but I would love
to go back again
and explore the
country (India)”
explore religions –
Catholicism, Hinduism,
Buddhism – in my non-existent spare time,” she says.
However, some influence
in music must have seeped
in as evident from
Srinivasan’s career choices.
“My Dad plays Carnatic
music on the violin – so that
was around me growing up,”
she notes.
“But I’m really close to my
Mom’s family,” she admits.
Her mother has always
worked from home while
Srinivasan was growing up
and still does, on issues
relating to health statistics.
Her father came to study
statistics and computer science from IIT, Delhi, and
worked with the National
Institutes of Health and is
now with the Centers for
Disease Control in their statistics department.
Srinivasan has hardly seen
any Bollywood or Tollywood
movies and laughs at the
idea that she might in the
future be approached by
Indian film makers.
“I never really got into
Bollywood. I wish I had as a
kid, but no.” She loves
movies however, “Almost
everything – fantasy, period
drama, I’m all over the
map.”
She sees another plus to
being in this docudrama. “I
am getting more interested
in Indian culture now, and
this whole project renewed
my interest,” she told Desi
Talk. “Noor was really connected to all aspects of her
family. She embraced all of
it. I realized I hadn’t and
would like to be more that
way. I don’t know how, but I
would love to go back again
and explore the country
(India).”
Regarding a future in film,
Srinivasan is realistic. “If
there are any opportunities,
yes,” she says, “But it’s so
much about luck,” she adds.
As for Bollywood or
Tollywood, “I don’t know
enough to say what I would
do (if approached),” she says
frankly.
How She Got the Part
Regardless of the differences, Grace was the one
finally chosen from among
those selected by a
Baltimore casting agency
deputed for the task of finding a Noor and another 12
cast members for “Enemy of
the Reich” says Alex
Kronemer, executive producer of the docudrama.
While in her freshman year
at George Washington
University, Srinivasan had
signed up with a local casting agent in case there was
any opportunity for landing
a summer job.
That didn’t pan out. So
last year when she got a call
from the agent about some
company in Baltimore needing a half-Indian-half
Caucasian woman, she was
astonished at the chance. “I
didn’t know the story but I
went there and read the
script.”
A few days later they
called her to come back for a
second audition. That’s
when she got her act together as it were, read up on
Noor and got more into the
character, before she auditioned again.
“I was surprised when I
got the call next day for the
part. It was really, really
crazy.”
That Je Ne Sais Quoi
Not only did Noor happen
to have the same ethnicities
as Grace and the looks needed, but Grace also had the je
ne sais quoi, that indefinable
quality. “Grace kind of
inhabited the Noor from history – a combination of
somebody with incredible
courage but also extremely
vulnerable. Noor was petite
and her personality was
demure, yet when she took
on the challenge, she was
steely. Grace gives off similar vibes – a person who is
determined but also gives off
a sense of obvious vulnerability.”
So even though Srinivasan
had no acting experience,
Kronemer and Rob Gardner,
the producer and director,
took the risk because of that
something they saw in the
23-year old musician, the
grace in movement, the
nuanced approach.
“Another person had quite
a bit of experience, but at
the end of the day, actors
have to respond to direction,
and she seemed to have the
ability to respond to what
you were asking her to do
and do it,” Kronemer said.
It took ten days in June last
year to shoot the parts needed on two blocks of
Baltimore’s Mount Vernon
Square that mirrors the
streets of Paris. “All through
those 10 Days, Grace was
able to convey the nuanced
and complicated emotions.
So she has acting gifts. It
was the best choice,”
Kronemer says.
‘Boys Will Be Boys’
India
O
In India's largest state, a
misogynistic family-run
political dynasty wants to
pretend a rape epidemic
doesn't exist
By Ankita Rao and Vivekananda Nemana
n the morning of May 27, villagers in the Badaun district in India's Uttar Pradesh state found two teenage
girls, raped and murdered, hanging from a mango tree.
The girls had disappeared the night before, never
returning after wandering into the fields near their
home to go to the bathroom. The attack came days
before a series of brutal assaults across the state: Four
men gang-raped a 17-year-old girl, and another group
of men beat the mother of a different rape victim after
she refused to withdraw an official complaint. On May
30, reporters confronted chief minister Akhilesh Yadav
in the state capital of Lucknow about the recent wave
of sexual violence.
But the 41-year-old leader of India's most populous
and arguably most lawless state was unrepentant.
"Aren't you safe?" Yadav shot back, standing amid a
gaggle of microphones, his aides smirking behind him.
"You're not facing any danger, are you?"
The remarks were consistent with what has become a
disturbing party line. Yadav is one of the leading politicians in the Samajwadi Party ("Socialist Party"), a left44 THE INDIAN AMERICAN OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2014
Two girls are seen
hanging from a tree in
a village in the northern
Indian state of Uttar
Pradesh on May 28,
2014, in this still image
taken from video.
leaning group that has built a reputation as one of the
most anti-women parties in the country. In April,
Yadav's father, party head and former Uttar Pradesh
chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, opposed capital
punishment for rape, citing that "boys will be boys ...
they make mistakes." Just days later, Abu Azmi, the
head of the party's Maharashtra state branch, argued
that if men were hanged for rape, then women should
be hanged for having premarital sex. In July, Mulayam
sparked controversy again by claiming that out of all
Indian states, Uttar Pradesh had the most people but
the fewest rapes – a blatant lie. (Reached through a
party spokesperson, Yadav and his father declined to
Demonstrators from All
India Democratic
Women's Association
(AIDWA) hold placards
and shout slogans during a protest against
the recent killings of
two teenage girls, in
New Delhi May 31.
Onlookers stand at the
site where two teenage
girls, who were raped,
were hanged from a
tree at Budaun district
in the northern Indian
state of Uttar Pradesh
May 31.
comment.)
A combination of uneven development, a flawed judiciary, and systemic police corruption have made Uttar
Pradesh among the most difficult places to be a woman
in India. The state – with a population of roughly 200
million, enough to make it the fifth-largest country in
the world – reported over 32,500 incidents of genderbased crime in 2013, ranking second only to the admittedly less populated Andhra Pradesh. Of those, 3,000
were rapes – more than a 50 percent rise from the year
before, according to the Ministry of State for Home
Affairs, which oversees the national police service. Yet
these numbers don't tell the whole story; rape carries
India's Congress party
vice president Rahul
Gandhi, right,
accompanied by local
officials, visits the
house of one of the two
teenage girls, who
were raped and
hanged from a tree, at
Budaun district in the
Uttar Pradesh May 31.
Supporters of Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) shout
slogans as police use a
water cannon to stop them
from moving towards the
office of Akhilesh Yadav,
the chief minister of the
Uttar Pradesh, during a
protest against recent rape
and hanging of two girls,
in Lucknow June 2.
significant stigma in India, and can often lead to abuse
directed towards the victim, causing sexual assault to
go widely underreported.
The scale of gender-based violence in Uttar Pradesh
is likely much worse than the already disturbing figures
suggest. That is not the way the party sees it, however.
"This whole thing about violence against women –this
is propaganda," Rajendra Chaudhary, a Samajwadi
Party cabinet minister and spokesman, told Foreign
Policy. "These incidents are unfortunate and we're trying to fix them, but this is a social problem. We can't
say that this is happening because of government."
Meanwhile, the Samajwadi Party has resisted efforts
to reform rape laws, refused to reserve a portion of
seats in its parliament for women, and opposed
The veiled mother of
one of the two teenage
girls, who were raped
and hanged from a
tree, weeps outside her
house at Budaun district in the northern
Pradesh May 31.
47 THE INDIAN AMERICAN JULY-SEPTEMBER 2014
increased penalties for sexual crimes after the nowinfamous 2012 Delhi gang rape, where a young woman
was brutally -- and fatally -- assaulted on a bus in the
capital. In Uttar Pradesh "violence against women,"
said activist Kavita Krishnan, who runs the All India
Progressive Women's Association, a women's rights
organization, "seems to be a feature of governance."
While the state's leaders have long presided over an
inept administration that enables widespread sexual
violence, the younger Yadav was supposed to be different. Australia-educated, well-spoken, and charismatic,
Yadav ran as a reformer who could fix Uttar Pradesh's
corrupt and sclerotic bureaucracy -- and, in turn, upend
the state institutions that had abetted impunity for
criminal perpetrators. But two years later, he has done
little to distinguish himself from the party's old guard;
sexual assault remains pervasive in his state. It's a
product of a systemic rape culture, according to
Krishnan, that very much still "flows from the top."
– Foreign Policy
Indian policemen show
two men (L and 2nd R),
who are accused of
gang raping and
hanging two girls, to
the media at Budaun
district in the northern
Pradesh May 30.
Onlookers look at the
body of a woman, hung
from a tree, in
Moradabad district in
the northern Indian
state of Uttar Pradesh
June 12.
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By Raza Rumi
Pakistan’s
Dueling Military
Cultures
P
akistan’s military
has been in the
global spotlight for
several decades.
Within the country,
it has shaped both
state and society,
including arbitrating key decisions -- from foreign policy to
economic management. A large
number of Pakistanis view it as
a “guardian” of the state. Yet,
scant scholarship exists on the
institution itself and the roles it
has played. Instead, hagiographical accounts from
Pakistani authors (mostly
retired military officers) and
media commentary that often
overlook the important questions dominate the discussion.
South Asia
Two new books published in
quick succession have expanded the debate and provide new
insights into the workings of
the Pakistani military. The first
is a provocative assessment by
Dr. C. Christine Fair entitled
Fighting to the End: The
Pakistan Army’s Way of War
and second is Aqil Shah’s indepth study, The Army and
Democracy: Military Politics in
Pakistan. Both books extend
the scope of research by relying
on the military’s own literature,
and by bringing to light lesserknown dimensions of the internal norms and processes that
determine its organizational
culture and outlook.
It is well-known that the
Pakistani army soldiers direct Muslim Sunnis arriving to attend the funeral of fellow
Sunni who were killed in Friday’s sectarian clashes during a Muharram procession,
near Laiquat Bagh, Rawalpindi Nov. 17, 2013. Below, Paramilitary soldiers checks a
motorist along a street in a neighbourhood, after a gunfire attack on a security
academy run by the Airports Security Force (ASF) in Karachi June 10.
Pakistan Army has long viewed
itself as the arbiter of “national
interest.” The military gave
itself a preponderant role in
the running of the state and
exercises a veto power over the
nation’s security, foreign, and
economic policies. Fair’s book
examines the “strategic culture” of the institution and
how its culture evolved from
the conflict with Pakistan’s
powerful neighbor India,
transforming into a larger,
more defined viewpoint. The
eleven chapters of Fair’s book
probe into all the facets – genesis and evolution, ideology,
regional and global implications – of this strategic culture.
A state that views India as
“its eternal foe that not only
seeks to dominate Pakistan but
to destroy it” is the central argument
of the various materials that Fair relies
upon. However, Fair argues that this
fear is primarily an ideological tool
that enables the Army to position itself
as a defender of Pakistan’s “ideological
frontiers,” as defined by the twonation theory, and an “Islamic identity” vis-à-vis a “Hindu” India. The
Army takes its capability to mount a
challenge to India as its raison d’etre,
asserts Fair.
Fair also argues that seeking strategic parity with India has been an overriding policy goal within the
Pakistani
defense literature. She
makes a detailed
review of
Pakistan’s
relations with
the United States
and shows how the United
States, despite its historical assistance
to modernize the Pakistani Army, is
viewed as an unreliable ally. China, on
the other hand, gets a favorable position and is viewed a counterweight to
U.S. hegemony in the region.
Since the nuclearization of the subcontinent, Fair argues, Pakistan has
kept its nuclear doctrine flexible, managing to deter India from escalating
any conflict while drawing international actors like the United States into
various crises. The strategic assessment of the Army, as Fair elaborates,
is that Pakistan’s position as a nuclear
state restrains the United States from
completely abandoning the country.
Can this ingrained strategic worldview change? Fair is not hopeful. She
paints a dire picture and argues the
institution is “fundamentally unsatis52 THE INDIAN AMERICAN OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2014
A Pakistani soldier guards a road in Sadda, Kurram Agency, along the Afghan border July 6, 2010.
fied with the status quo,
desiring additional territory
even when it is not desired
for security.” In a striking
insight, she also challenges
the conventional wisdom
that democratization will
improve things. Fair says
the Army’s strategic culture
permeates Pakistan’s “civil
society, political culture and
bureaucracies.”
However, she does note a
change in recruitment patterns. In 1972, Army officers
came from only a few districts in Punjab and KhyberPakhtunkhwa provinces, but
by 2005, nearly all of the
districts in Pakistan were
sending officers. Fair’s
research shows that many of
these officers may not be
sharing the Punjabi-dominated Army’s core values
with the same intensity, and
shows the potential for
transformation.
Aqil Shah’s The Army and
Democracy is another
detailed review of the genesis and evolution of the
Pakistani Army’s institutional culture and world view.
The book shows that the
Army’s attitudes echo the
fears and dogma of
Pakistan’s early history.
Shah argues that the Army’s
dominant political role was
not inevitable, despite the
underdeveloped nature of
political institutions.
This is a major departure from earlier studies that cited
the overdeveloped nature of
colonial state.
Shah painstakingly traces
the anatomy of coups in
Pakistan and the underlying
belief systems that resulted
in the Army taking charge of
the country’s affairs. He
argues that national security
is perceived by the institution to be a “national interest” and this has thwarted
the evolution of political
institutions in Pakistan.
Yet Shah goes
beyond the view
that the military is driven
by its cor-
A Pakistani soldier oversees the incineration of hashish and betel nuts on International Day
against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Karachi June 26.
porate interests. He elaborates, through a rich array of
literature and interviews,
that an adherence to institutional norms and “traditions
of tutelage” explains the military’s appropriation of the
chief defender role. The
“military mentality” (i.e. its
norms) informs its overarching role as the savior of last
resort. The use of archive
material and military documents makes Shah’s study a
rich source of global references on the Pakistani military’s dominance and how
its own pronouncements
reinforce its tutelary traditions. He also explores the
military’s socialization program and curricula, and discovers that apprehensions
about Indian designs to
harm Pakistan continue to
be a major theme in defense
instruction.
Shah also argues that the
existence of terrorist groups
and nuclear weapons on
Pakistani soil raise questions
about the viability of the
military’s conventional
world view. A close reading
of both Shah and Fair suggest that the Pakistani Army
may be taking huge risks
with long-term implications
for regional and international security to achieve short-
term parity with India.
Both books, however,
understate the public pronouncements of Pakistan’s
former military chief, Gen.
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani. Since
2011, and until his retirement in 2013, Kayani had
advanced the notion that
Pakistan’s real threats were
internal. There have been
some changes to the 2013
Green Book (a leading internal publication that collates
essays by serving officers),
that also express this idea,
along with the usual Indiacentric postulates. The troubled and asymmetrical relationship with the United
States, ironically, has played some role
in this shift; and the discovery of
Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, and
the subsequent criticism of the Army,
made it, once again, look inwards.
A decade ago, more than 90 percent
of Pakistan’s military personnel and
assets were deployed to counter the
Indian threat. But a substantial number of these resources have been
diverted to Western borders; and the
rise of the Pakistani Taliban has provided a new challenge to the military
and its intelligence apparatus. Internal
security challenges have also compounded the emerging world view,
and the ongoing security operation in
North Waziristan – the third major
offensive in the last five years – indicates that there is a greater emphasis
on sorting out Pakistan’s internal
messes than on fighting a battle for
regional domination.
Whether the recent changes are lasting and will result in a revision of the
Army’s security doctrines or impact its
curricula and institutional culture are
open questions. There is increasing
pressure within Pakistan itself to
adopt a zero-tolerance policy for militancy. An important variable here
would the trajectory of democratization and how far the political elites are
willing to challenge the strategic culture that Fair has elaborately theorized in her book. Pakistan’s incumbent Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has
already challenged the India-centric
security paradigm and this is one of
the reasons why he faces a rocky
future. The ongoing trials of former
president Pervez Musharraf -- which
would have been unthinkable a decade
ago – also indicate a subtle shift is
underway.
Both Fair’s and Shah’s books explain
why the civilian space in Pakistan is
limited and why Pakistan’s military
will likely enjoy many more years as
the nation’s ascendant political force.
The country’s activist judges and
media have expanded the discussion,
but it will take a decade or more for
this to result in a more rational balance of civil-military power in
Pakistan.
– Foreign Policy
Name of the Game
India
Can TV, Bollywood and Big
Money Rescue Fading
Village Game of kabaddi?
By Rama Lakshmi
F
ourteen players stood in formation on both
sides of the starting line for their daily
evening practice of the muddy ancient Indian
game of kabaddi. They said a quick prayer at
the temple in the corner of the field, touched
their coach's feet and kissed the soil as they
waited for the opening whistle.
Bare-chested and barefoot, Kaptan Singh muttered
the words "kabaddi, kabaddi" menacingly under his
breath as he crossed the line into the opponents'
muddy turf in his village on the outskirts of New Delhi.
Singh, 25, is the "raider."
Dabang Delhi players
grab a Bengal Warriors
player during their
match in New Delhi.
Tanwar Sports Club
members prepare the
kabaddi playing field.
Seven opponents, called "defenders," knit their hands and circle
Singh, ready to pounce. Singh's
mission is to touch one of them and
make it safely back to his side of the
field. As he inches close, one
defender roughly yanks Singh's leg,
and another pulls his arm. As Singh
flees, they chase and tackle him,
falling on top of each other in a big
pile. Singh is crushed in the sloshy,
rain-drenched mud.
Turbaned village spectators
cheered.
The renewed buzz over kabaddi
in small villages such as Dera is
part of a national revival of a rural
sport that until recently was slowly
fading into antiquity, overshadowed
by the country's craze for cricket,
rapid urbanization and affluence,
villagers say. The comeback kicked
off with the just-concluded sixweek professional kabaddi league, a
made-for-TV tournament replete
with thumping music, fancy lights,
Sunil Tanwar holds on
tightly to an opponent,
No. 21, during a training
session.
A player tries to score a
point by tapping his opponent during the team’s
training session.
Bollywood stars, fashionistas and big money aimed at
recasting the rustic game for India's urban middle
classes.
"The boys have seen so many kabaddi champions on
TV last month that they now feel they too can be stars,"
said Bijender Tanwar, 38, a coach in Dera. "This was a
poor man's village game, wilting away in modern India.
It has got a new breath of life."
But reimagining kabaddi and fueling a cultural
revival of sorts was not easy. The game lacked media
attention, stadiums and even a formal vocabulary for
TV commentary.
"Kabaddi has deep roots and resonance, but the challenge was to present it for the urban middle-class
A kabaddi player’s mission is to touch a
defender and make it
safely back to his side
of the field.
Bijender Tanwar, one of
the trainers of the
Tanwar Sports Club,
wrestles a younger
player to the ground
during a kabaddi training session in Dera,
India.
Indians as a style and attitude statement. To get them
to say 'Oh my god, kabaddi is actually quite cool,' " said
Uday Shankar, chief executive of Star India, the entertainment and sports network that is a division of 21st
Century Fox.
At the opening and the finals of the professional
kabaddi tournament, an Indian who's who — including
movie stars and the family of Mukesh Ambani, India's
richest businessman — turned out to cheer for their
favorite teams. They waved team flags, wore colorful
team T-shirts, took selfies with each other and tweeted.
The games generated more than 2 billion digital mentions. The razzamatazz in the matches was akin to the
NBA Finals.
Opening night drew 10 times the number of TV viewers as soccer's World Cup this year, making pro kabaddi
the second-biggest sport after cricket here, the channel
said. About 426 million people watched the games over
36 days.
Opponents wrestle on
the ground during a
training session.
A member of the
Tanwar Sports Club
checks the dimensions
of the playing field
before a training session in Dera
"This was possible only because there is now a new
self-confidence among Indians to explore what is in
their own back yard even as they chase what is cool
abroad," Shankar said.
The template for the kabaddi makeover was the fiveday gentleman's game of cricket that was turned into a
three-hour TV event a few years ago replete with dance
music, cheerleaders and celebrity team owners.
In Dera, the number of young children at kabaddi
practice has tripled since the TV league. And now, villagers have set themselves the goal of producing at least
four players for next year's pro kabaddi season.
"The pro kabaddi game drew such glamorous and
powerful people. The league players even got police
security as if they were VIPs," gushed Rohit Sharma,
23, a truck driver by night and kabaddi player by day.
"This makes us feel so important. Nobody bothered
about us until now. We were just dismissed as those
A few spectators watch
the members of the
Tanwar Sports Club’s
kabaddi team prepare
the playing field before
their training session in
Dera. In rural areas, the
game is played on
muddy turf.
Sunil Tanwar, the team’s
captain, warms up.
Tanwar, 25, has been
playing kabaddi since he
was 9.
who play in the mud."
On television, the game looked a bit different.
TV kabaddi was played on the mat, and the men wore
shoes. The maximum weight is 190 pounds, slimmer
than the Dera players.
"After seeing that the TV event used mats, our local
politician has promised to buy us a mat too," said
Pappu Pehelwan, a muscular 38-year-old coach. "My
boys are saying, 'Give us a mat if you want our vote.' "
Players are enjoying the glamour but are also aware
that it is a mixed blessing.
"The TV commentary was a bit too dramatic," Singh
Tanwar Sports Club
Coach Krishna Kumar
Dagar instructs his
players.
Bengal Warriors
players try to catch a
Dabang Delhi player,
No. 10, during a match
in New Delhi.
said.
"Hopefully, the glamour does not take away from the
purity of the game later," another player said.
Until now, Pehelwan said, the biggest wish of players
in Dera was to be picked by the government for a police
or railway job because of their talent. But now they are
also dreaming of TV fame and fortune.
"Kabaddi, the game of the soil, is making unexpected
heroes of the sons of soils," said an article in India
Today magazine about the impact of the new league.
Kabaddi was introduced in the Asian Games in 1990,
and India has won gold each time. Indian immigrants
in Britain and Canada also have organized kabaddi
tournaments in the past decade.
But the game remained largely ignored by urbanized
Indians.
In Dera, coaches reminisced about the game back in
their day. In the 1970s, the prize at a kabaddi match
was usually a vest and a wooden shield, they said. Then
it changed to kitchen utensils and steel buckets. Then
bags, radios and color TVs.
"Then suddenly, out of nowhere, comes pro kabaddi
and the champions win $85,000," said Tanwar, the
coach. "That tells you the story of kabaddi. Who knows,
India may even forget cricket in some years. It is all
destiny."
– The Washington Post

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