The story of Dawood's wife secretly visiting India

I am reminded of a funny story from my home state. A starving jackal was lying on a large field, craving for food. He saw a Bull, happily grazing with it's huge ba*ls swinging like a low hanging fruit from its behind.

The hungry jackal wouldn't dare attack the Bull, as the giant bovines reaction can be unpredictable. Watching his forbidden fruit swinging vigorously like pendulum from behind, the Jackal thought its fall is imminent and patiently waited for his meal.

Soon it became noon, evening, followed by twilight. No sign of the Bull's ba**ls  falling off ! The mountain sized bovine moved away after finishing his meal. The frustrated jackal died from starvation.

The moral of this story in Odia :

"ANAAI ANAAI GALANI BELA

 SANDHA PE**A LAGI MALA SIALA".

Roughly transliterated...

"Forever Waiting for Bull's Ba*ls to Fall,

 The Jackal Died After All."

If media reports are to be believed, India's most wanted fugitive Dawood Ibrahim's wife reportedly visited India last year, incognito of course. It has been revealed by the Don's brother during his interrogation in Bombay.

May be inside my lifetime, unlike this ill fated Jackal, I will see a strong, assertive India capturing (I doubt) or killing of Dawood. Great expectation, but certainly not out of bounds. The son of a Mumbai Constable of police, now based in Pakistan supposedly runs an illicit empire of $7 Billion. Dawood has reportedly owns half of Bombay, has so much contacts across India - forget his wife, he can be an honorable guest of someone at helm in India and go back incongito.

A Nation or a Person, whose vision goes above and beyond the next quarter into the next quarter of century, succeeds in its mission. USA, Russia, China, Israel fall into that category. Remember, it took Americans nearly a decade to eliminate Bin Laden and Russians 9 years to punish Zia Ul Haq (rumor has been KGB planted a device in his plane to kill him). It took over a decade for Mossad to track down and spectacularly eliminate all the perpetrators of Black September terrorist group who massacred Israeli athletes in 1972, Munich Olympics.

Yet a sizable chunk of our security establishment are still stuck in Cold War era, lacking purpose, direction. They're mostly inefficient and often corrupt.

I recently read an interview with Vyacheslav Trubnikov, now SVR chief (Russian secret service post Soviet) from 1996-2000 given to an American journalist. He was born in Siberia and joined KGB in 1967.

Immediately he was sent to Calcutta, India under cover as a reporter. He said - "Every journalist in Calcutta those days was considered a spy". A KGB spy in India, in the middle of Commie paradise called Calcutta at the height of Cold War, was certainly not there to do social service with Mother Teresa. Soviet Union then was a nation friendly towards India, yet recruited spies in the house of a friend. But at the same time it supposedly trained India's secret service RAW a thing or two about the old school of spying.

RAW has its share of success, esoe in its neighborhood. It was still quite active under P V Narasimha Rao until mid 1990s and then faltered to keep upto the expectation. Hope it is getting back to track now under the current administration.

In that context, this Hungry Jackal in me is still waiting. Remember, I K Gujral withdrew RAW support networks from Pakistan, making us scratch our head and now starting our security from scratch. The present government has some catch up to do and I need to wait for that happen during my lifetime.