India, what do you stand for?

1. PUNE, March 31, 2011: Joseph Lelyveld's Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India is the latest book the Maharashtra government has decided to ban. “If the government of Maharashtra bans the book, it will be a greater insult to Bapu than that book or the author might have intended. I will challenge the ban,”, Mahatma's great-grandson Tushar Gandhi tweeted.
   
   Pointing out that he was against the culture of banning books, Mr. Gandhi said: “How does it matter if the Mahatma was straight, gay or bisexual? Every time he would still be the man who led India to freedom.”
   
   
2. United Nations, Mar 18 2011 India abstained from the voting on a resolution that approves a no-fly zone over Libya and authorizes "all necessary measures" for protecting innocent civilians there from Col Muammar Gaddafi''s forces.
   
3. A U.S. diplomatic cable obtained by WikiLeaks says that a political aide told a U.S. embassy official that India's ruling Congress party officials paid some members of parliament $2.2 million each to get them to back Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government in a 2008 confidence vote.
   
4. Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - TEHRAN -- India’s National Security Adviser has said many of the predictions that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had made about the developments in the world are proving correct.
5. More than 40 U.S. Embassy cables classified from New Delhi and Yangon, spread over the period from 2003 to 2009 and accessed by The Hindu through WikiLeaks, confirm the reality that in diplomacy, national ideals are no competition to that thing called “strategic interest.”
   India had no problem dumping old friend Aung San Suu Kyi (‘ASSK') to romance Myanmar's generals.
6. India has overtaken China to become the world's largest importer of arms, a Sweden-based think tank says.
   
   A report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) says India accounted for 9% of all weapons imports between 2006 and 2010.