Can you CORNER the World??

The title might puzzle you. But I mean it. Yes, every country tries to corner the globe with the power of their boundaries. It has been happening all the time somewhere around the world. I always wonder how can someone be cornered in a meeting over a round table. Why I wonder? Because how can you find a corner in a round table??? :-)

I play badminton with a Bangladeshi couple, needless to mention my neighbors geographically. India always has border issues with Bangladesh and Pakistan from the day of Independence of these countries. While we discuss political issues, or even otherwise, I always mention the border issues we have with them considering that Bangladesh was after all a part of India. They always bounce back with the severe famine/flood/arsenic poisoning that was/is being created by India in Bangladesh. Yes, of course they are right. India showed its superpower over the small country, once a part of its own state by constructing controversial barrages that counts to at least seventeen over the rivers that flow in to Bangladesh, one of them being the famous Farakka barrage. Though known in history as a country never waged a war or wanted to capture its neighbors, India, failed to establish its reputation in Bangladesh. It even made me think of as a "trademark Indian non-violent concentration camp". Many of my countrymen wouldn't like me for this phrase.

Back to the subject. I always wonder about the infiltration and the related or unrelated terrorist attacks especially in India. India seems to be very special as the country itself has potential threats as his neighbors mostly indirect. Their pusillanimous brutal slaughtering of common people in India, with increasing head counts every month, has not been paused. Such neutered terrorists die for no reason after leaving the entire country agitated and panicked. If at all their mission was to isolate the country from its neighbors, YES they have done it, without mistakes.

Now terror stricken countries close their borders. The borders are indeed not so visible even to their neighbors. The nations have coined a common terminology to justify themselves.

Security threat is that very fancy, man-made, every nation's favorite terminology that keeps the boundaries safer than the countries themselves. For how much did every country buy their lands? From whom did they buy and when? Is Columbus a sole owner of America Or Vasco-da-gama owns India still?

We build our houses and erect walls around it to define boundaries. No doubt they enhance our privacy but at the same time isolate us from our neighbors which in fact ourselves. This is similar to the story about a lion cub in a herd of lambs. On isolation, eventually we forget our nature and become walls with no more love and humanity left in our hearts. We bother much about the external elements that cross our boundaries as we see them as security threats. Hence we are no more lions but lambs. By this I don't mean building houses without boundaries. It is merely to understand that these boundaries doesn't mean everything to us. Security would always remain as a primary concern to any nation that do not live in harmony at least with its neighbors. India is no exception.