We need a Chanakya or at least a Churchill

The need of the hours is a Chanakya. A true Chanakya not of the type of Pranab Mukherjee who is lauded as a Chanakya but works for a party or for a family, or may be the party and the family are one and the same thing. That being the case, India's future is but quite bleak.

But it will not be easy to produce an ideologue, a statesman, an academician, a strategist, an orator or a transitional leader like Chanakya. May be we could make do with a Churchill. A politician adept at statecraft, willy enough to control the wicked, high on personal integrity and probity, and the with the interest of the nation above all.

In fact I am getting more and more convinced we need a Indian reincarnation of Churchill. Someone, who is on the brink of jingoism when it comes to his country and its interests. Someone, who believes in the great role that India has played in the past and is destined to play in the future. Someone, who does not get weak in the knee when he is obliged to allude to the ancient Indian Civilization read “Hindu Civilization” for some merits or learnings. Someone, who is sagacious enough to differentiate secularism from minorityism.

Churchill believed, that post war Britain would be beacon of the Christian civilization. So much for the western worlds claims to secular credentials. 

Someone, who instinctively knows, which the 3 gravest problems were that India needs to address. Someone, who can protect the territorial integrity of the country as though it was his ancestral land any one inch of which he will part only upon his death.

Someone, whose speech is as powerful as Nehru or Atal Bihari or Churchill. Someone, who can charge and inspire contradicting ideologies and fighting factions into a unified goal of economic prosperity and military supremacy.

Whose Independence day speech keeps you awake and not lull you to sleep like Manmohan's speech does.