Our India is at present a Hamlet Nation or Nation on the Horns of Dilemma. "To go or not to go, that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to go to Oslo and attend the Nobel award for peace being given to Liu of China and suffer the slings and arrows of the same country or skip it." Should India spite Chinese Premier due next week. China has told without mincing words that it does not approve of any nation attending the function.
The best way for India is to reverse the position vis a vis with China. If the Nobel Peace Prize committee decides in its wisdom to award Peace Prize to Kashmiri separatist leader Geelani a Peace Prize, will India approve of anyone to attend that function. Will it say that we are not bothered and anyone can attend it or even coax 'come on buddy, go ahead, attend it by all means.'
No reason for this dilemma.
If India is worried that if it does not attend the Peace Prize Committee will take umbrage here is the best solution. This has been tested by all school boys ( about school girls I don't know) and all the 'sarkari babus' and found never to fail. Take casual leave. Casual leave is something special which only school boys and sarkari babus know. It can be taken without any prior notice or sanction. Whenever one feels not in a mood to attend the drudgery of class-room or the musty smell of accumulated files, shoot out a casual leave application. No one can question it. There are standard reasons also. The most common one is 'suffering from fever and headache'. The only problem is that this fever business can be tested. In the case of the school boy if the mother takes it into her mind to put the hand on the brow of her son and declare that he is as cool as the bottom of a water pot then off you go to school. Modern mother may take the help of the cursed instrument thermometer. In case of babus these problems do not arise. But the best reason to give is diarrhea. No body has so far gone to the lavatory with the sufferer to test the consistency of the stool.
So the Under Secretary in Oslo can send the casual leave application siting the reason of diarrhea. It is sure that the committee chairman will not come to the Indian embassy and check the lavatories.
There is one more method. . The Under Secretary can send his 'chaprassi' in his place. Committee cannot then complain that no one from the Indian Embassy attended the function. China also will be very happy.
