(Dear Friends, reacting to the latest TV Report about China’s claim of the Himalayan Range this verse got composed. Hope you like it.)
CHINA’S VAULTING HIMALAYAN AMBITION ! By Raj Nandy From Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’: “vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other.” ………………………………………………………………………. China, having infected the entire world by unleashing the deadly Corona virus, Have now started to measure the height of the mighty Himalayas! Having begun a dispute with Nepal, her peaceful southern neighbor, By trying to claim that entire Himalayan range as part of China! Ignorant about Macbeth’s ‘vaulting ambition’, - which led to his downfall and destruction! In the Tibetan portion of this mountain range, An unmanned radar device was earlier set up by China for air surveillance. Now under the pretext of monitoring air traffic over Tibet, Two more radars devices are being set up on the Himalayas once again, Which will also act as snooping devices upon her peaceful southern neighbors! China already has her jaundiced eye upon India’s Arunachal Pradesh, Not forgetting her earlier illegal occupation of India’s Aksai-Chin region. She also has full co-operation from her ‘boot-licking friend’ present across India’s western borders. Unfortunately, only Historians remember the rise and fall of ambitious Empires. China too shall one day realize her Himalayan Blunder! -Raj Nandy, New Delhi; 16 May 2020