Chandigarh: Congress MP Manish Tewari on Tuesday said that security situations regarding India's borders with Pakistan and China have generally not been analysed properly, something his book '10 Flashpoints; 20 Years National Security Situations That Impacted India' tried to decipher.
"In India there's an unfortunate culture of not analysing the security situations openly, apparently for 'security reasons'. We only wake up when something happens," Tiwari said in the release event of his book '10 Flashpoints; 20 Years National Security Situations That Impacted India'.
Tewari said that the sole purpose of writing the book was "to apprehend the security situations we have dealt with in the past and perhaps inculcate some improvisations in the future situations".
"The purpose of writing this book is not playing the blame game or pointing fingers at anyone. The book rather focuses on the belief that if there is polarization in the society, it will inevitably reflect in the national security situations as well," he said.
India, he said, was still overshadowed by the conflict it faced with Pakistan in 1999 and was dealing with the Chinese border disputes with the "same approach" that it had 20 years ago.
What happened during Kargil in 1999, happened again with China in 2020, he said.
"In 1999, we were not able to understand the extent to which Pakistan had penetrated into the Indian soil for understandable reasons. But in 2020, we repeated the same mistake and could not understand that China had infiltrated into the Indian soil," said the Congress MP, whose book takes a potshot at the Congress-led UPA government regarding its reaction to the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.