First and foremost, there may or maynot be a law on the book that is violated, but there is a law of morality and commonsense that is being violated.
There is nothing wrong in talking and discussing issues with an enemy country, but it does matter when you team up with enemy country to undermine your own. This is considered treson. MORE RANTING and twisting of facts and an attempt to put words into my mouth (post) DELETED. ------------------------------------------------------------------
Gaurang Desai, evidently, speaks very correctly but his statement itself implies that any act is considered treason IF AND ONLY IF
(a) One teams up with another country against one's own country.
(b) Undermines his own country in the process.
Let us analyze the above with reference to riverlink. What is considered teaming up with another country ? Is championing Iraq's cause during the US-Iraq conflict an act of treason for those involved or are the individuals who want the India-Pak conflict to be resolved, involved in treason? In fact there is a pretty big difference between the freedom to speak: the freedom to hold on to one's own belief and high treason. There are enough people who use the term "treason" as a subterfuge to prevent others from exercising their opinion. In the 1930s a short guy with a funny little mustache named Adolf Hitler and not very long ago Sani Abacha in Nigeria did the same :-).
My second concern is on the term *undermine*. How are the individuals concerned undermining India ?? The concept of riverlink is not yet adopted by India! It is still under consideration: under debate. Undermining the concept of a handful of guys who are working on formulating the Riverlink concept is not undermining *India*.
I am really against using common words in an UNCOMMON SENSE. :-)
Syamanta Saikia
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