Fighting for Nothing

I was just going through India’s boundry disputes recently with its two big neighbours China and Pakistan. They are Aksai Chin, Arunachal Pradesh with China and Siachen , Sir Creek with Pakistan. I can find a very basic similarity with all these places geographically. Aksai Chin currently under Chinese control is a barren white desert where there is no vegetation and in fact it’ll be challenge to find grass in this region. Arunachal Pradesh is a sparsely populated hilly and remote north eastern part of the country. Now comes the famous and known ones . Siachen glacier is world’s coldest battle field with more soldiers dyeing because of cold than by battle fatalities.Sir Creek is a marshy island which is difficult to demarcate and is a bone of contention between India and Pakistan.

So as a country we are fighting for pieces of real estates in which nobody will be interested . This really makes no sense economically although we fight because we think it is our land , basically for pride and national honour etc. Though this sounds incredibly correct we must recognize that we are spending resources and energy where it is least required.