iNTO PAST WITH PAIN...XI

INTO PAST WITH PAIN… XI
Prof Dr Colonel K Prabhakar Rao ( Retired)
SCENE XI
( Washington is seen seated in a room on a posh and magnificent seat. With him John F Kennedy is also seen.. In the mean time the guard comes in and reports..)

Guard.. Sir A visitor has come from India, Can he be allowed in?

Washington. Please

( Gandhi walks in with his stick )

Washngton. Welcome Mr Gandhi. Please be seated. Whats the matter. Recently you were here.

Gandhi. True sir. I came for some work with respect to Pakistan

Kennedy. Sir what is that?

Gandhi. Sir You know Pakistan was involved in recent Terror attacks on Bombay. We have been pressurizing them to hand over some of the criminals responsible for these attacks including Dagwood Ibrahim.

Washington. I know. Even we are pressurizing them to take strong action. Recently Mrs Rice strongly admonished them.
Gandhi. All these are not really making much difference

Kennedy. Look Mr Gandhi. We also told them to act or we would act

Gandhi. That means are you going to attack?

Washington. That we can not say now. It is better get Bush and Obama here

(Washington twists his hand in a gesture and soon Mr Bush and Obama appear there)

Washington. Welcome Gentlemen . Be seated

Bush. Good afternoon sir

Obama., Hello sir. How are you

Washington. We are fine here. But Gandhi appears unwell


Gandhi. ( Slightly irked up). It is not like that. I came because I thought you are our well wishers

Washington. Surely we are

Kennedy. Please be cool Mr Gandhi . We are here to help you.


Gandhi. Look Mr President Bush. These Pakistanis are dilly dallying the issue. Till date they have not taken strong action

Bush. Yeah. I learnt it. We have been pressurizing them


Obama. I also said if India takes any action I shall fully support it. But you have not taken any action

Bush. You have lost time I feel

Gandhi. Sir. How can we all of a sudden go and fall on them. We have to give them time to act

Bush. True. So you gave them time and we also sent Mrs Rice there.

Kennedy. Mr Brown was also there

Gandhi. But nothing much happened. They said they put some people under arrest and Jaisha e Masod was banned. That does not solve problem

Bush. But you guys are not strong. You keep shouting that you do not take any military action.. Laughs .. haa. Haaa..

Washington. That was the joke . Why should you say that? You must keep other guy guessing

Gandhi. That is ok.. After wards Pranab Mukharjee said all options are open

Kennedy. What is the use?

Washington. Now Pakistan knows that you can not do any thing except to shout around as usual. You made a joke of yourselves.

Gandhi. Now what we should do? Should we suck our thumbs

Washington. Mr Gandhi. Do not be desperate. If you want to suck thumbs how any one can stop you? You are very famous for Ramdhun and non violence. Why don’t try some thing?

Gandhi. Sir Hope you are not joking

Washington.. No .. No Not like that. Every time you cane you preached non violence and forgiveness to us. Hope you remember it.

Gandhi . Sure. I remember

Washington. Then what prevents you from doing it? Go to Pakistan India border and do fasting and sing Ramdhun….

Gandhi. Probably that is only course left to us. Now Pakistan has changed tones also. They say that they were prepared for war. Their airforce planes flew over their capital as show of strength.

Washington. Look Mr Gandhi. Your planes also flew here and there. It may not be possible for us to directly involve militarily at present unless guys in Pakistan do another 9/11 in America

Gandhi. Should we wait till then?

Kennedy ( Laughs) haaaa…..haaaaa.. I can see desperation on your face Mr Gandhi…

Gandhi, No Mr Kennedy. Please do not underestimate India. We are very strong

Kennedy. Yes . In words of course. When comes to action, the limbs shake. Knees give way.


Gandhi. You harbor very poor opinion about us

Kennedy. I have seen in 1962.

Gandhi. Sir! Why remind us about 1962 defeat? We left it much behind, Afterwards we won two wars and also Kargil war

Kennedy. What is the use. You can live on past laurels always

Gandhi. True.

Washington. Look Mr Gandhi. Every country has to protect itself. If some one has to help some price has to be paid

Gandhi. What price we have to pay for American help?

Washington. You will know very soon.

Gandhi. We have already signed nuclear deal although communists were against it.

Washington. Much thanks for it.

Kennedy. Why there is so much anti American feelings in your country? Your communists are against us.

Gandhi. That is their philosophy. You believe in Capitalism. So they have to hate by force.

Washington. Do you know Gandhi? The children of most of these communist guys are in USA earning dollars.

Gandhi. That I know.

Washington. Mr Gandhi. It looks your problem is already dead. You guys had no guts to smash Pakistan and show what you mean. Can you achieve some thing with Pakistan by pleading. Those guys will never hand over any one to you. You have to lump it down your throat. If have guts go al out and teach the guys a lesson.

Give those guys a good kick
With your long stick
Or else keep finger in mouth and lick
All will be OK in a moment flick

Kennedy.( Laughs) haaa….. haaaa….. Take clue from Israelis. How they manage their enemies, Just have a look. You stand no where. That is the only way Pakistan understands.

Gandhi. Thanks sir.. Let us see what can we do

( He gets up and walks away with his stick)

Dr K Prabhakar Rao