Clean India

I was an Air Force Officer in my purvashrama. 'Principles of War' was an important subject that we had to learn in our training Academy. We were taught that conventional warfare was an easier affair compared to gorilla warfare. We had also studied the Vietnam war as a good example of a successful gorilla warfare. In the Vietnam war America, the mightiest 'super power' in the world, had to accept defeat in the hands of the Vietnamese gorilla who were insignificant in number and might compared to the well armed combined might of the US Army and Air Force. In a conventional war the fight is against a well defined and clearly identified external enemy, whereas in gorilla warfare we cannot define or identify the enemy. He is invisible and within. It is much easier to fight an external visible enemy than fighting an invisible internal enemy. After 17 years of life as an Air Force officer, divine providence has brought me into a new mission through a traumatic experience of seeing death face to face in an air accident. This encounter with death at the least expected moment became a 'turning point' in my life. In 2008, twenty six years after that 'turning point', I have once again plunged myself into a new battle field. This time around, my mission is to be part of a 'Second Freedom Struggle' for economic, social and moral freedoms of India. The first freedom struggle of India was like a conventional war. It was essentially a political struggle aimed at liberating India from British subjugation. The 'enemy' was an outside force, well defined and clearly visible. The Second Freedom Struggle of India that we have initiated on 30th Jan 2008 (the 60th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's martyrdom) from Gandhi Mandapam, Kanyakumari, is aimed at winning economic, social and moral freedoms for India. This 'Second Freedom Struggle' is a struggle not against an outside political force, but against the forces of evil within India and within us Indians.