8th June 2019

Siddharth Suryanarayan is an IAF( Indian Air Force) pilot based on a classified air base on one of the Andaman Islands. The base was a secret facility with Indo-US joint command. A totally secret facility established after the Modi led NDA government came into power in 2014. It was created as the result of geopolitical realities in the Indo- pacific region. With the previous UPA government being an isolationist government, China had almost completely exercised control surrounding the Indian subcontinent. As a result of UPA incompetence SriLanka, Maldives, Pakistan, Nepal, Tibet, Myanmar all are now under the influence of China through their economy.

The blame of this situation may solely rest at the Indian politics. Frankly there are a multitude of problems affecting India from within so they largely had no time or resources to play International politics after the fall of Soviet Union unless it is a verbal spar with the Government of Pakistan. But after 2014 elections everything changed. The NDA (National Democratic Alliance) came into power and Indian politics expanded to include International Politics and cooperation. While some of Siddharth's friends may disagree, he personally believed the NDA have no religious agenda like the opposition claimed. But he believed there was a cultural agenda to Modi government.

India is a sovereign, socialist, secular, democratic republic incorporating different languages, religions, castes, beliefs etc. The Congress party once reflected all these qualities but as time moved forward the party travelled backwards. In 2014 elections the party leadership was under family rule in all states of India and in the national level as well. Whatever the cause they lost the election and NDA came into power. But this government had a speciality. The BJP(Bharatiya Janata Party) had 2/3 rd majority alone in the Parliament with 273 seats. The NDA as whole had more than 300. At that time BJP was seen as a right wing party in India and abroad but whatever the case that may be the new government empowered India faster than the UPA could. That is a fact and it can be proven easily as Indian economy overtook France and became the sixth largest economy in the world. The ISRO success rates have never been higher under any government in India like the NDA. The army was more powerful and strong responses were given to terrorist encroachments from Pakistan.

But China was an even bigger threat that India could not afford to fight alone. The problem was China was more advanced in every key aspects compared to India. They have political stability, economic stability, technological superiority, Nuclear power, strong army, navy, airforce and so on. Not only that they are permanent members of UN security council and has always been blocking India from initiating Anti-Terrorost movenents against Pakistan. India was surrounded by enemies from all sides. Not only that, China and Pakistan have common cause against India. They both have land disputes with India afterall.

Siddharth did not know much about the land dispute with China but he knew the problem revolved around two border maps drawn by two British rulers of India during colonisation. They absolutely destroyed everything during the 200 years of colonisation. Cut up Indian secularism and divided India permanently by playing Indian people against eachother. While people like Winston Churchill are celebrated as great heroes of Democracy in the west he and his cabinet were the most ruthless murderers that India have ever seen. His actions directly lead to more than four million Indian men, women and children dead due to starvation in Bengal alone during WW2 and the list of atrocities goes on.

As for Kashmir, that he knew intimately. He himself was a half Kashmiri from his mother's side afterall. The fault lays with both sides. Both of the nations want to incorporate Kashmir but in the tug war the region became split up and ended up in a bloody mess. Kashmir was once a peaceful place with religious tolerance but now no one is safe. Indian governments have tried their best to install peace by even giving some portions of Kashmir to Pakistan but unfortunately the tug war still continues to day. He was a buddhist himself as his father was one and his mother was a Muslim. You can imagine why his parents had to flee the valley. That was the kind of situation now existing in Kashmir.

Anyway after five years of NDA government rule another election came in 2019. The Congress still did not change it's leadership. Sons of old politicians came and faced the public with old names that the people have already heard so many times, promising secular India and all that hype. But they never realised the NDA never bothered with any religuous agenda in the last 5 years. They came into power by making such promises but they didn't bother to do any of that simply because they didn't have the time and mind to do that. The India they inherited was a chaotic one. From an outside perspective some may think all guns were silent in the Indian side of things but that was never the situation. Religion was becoming irrelevant in most parts of the nation and the world. The new India was dominated by youth. They were the majority and they saw what their elders didn't. The UPA and the old NDA governments ruled them the same way the British ruled India upto 1947, by dividing the nation on religious grounds. The word Hindu itself didn't exist in India until the British came because there was no such religion in India as Hinduism. There was an amalgamation of Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Judaism and many others. All these religions were incorporated to form the Hinduism at that time, but ofcourse there was no name like that as what we call Hiduism at that time was merely a way of life or a culture. It never asked anyone to worship this god or that god . It never asked anyone to read only this holy book or that. It simply asked it's followers to seek truth in the world . Most of the religions came into India peacefully. For example, Judaism came into India from refugees as Jews fled their Holy Land due to atrocities against them. India remained the only nation to welcome Jews with open arms and allowed to construct their temples and granted them full religious freedoms even without the existence of any democracy in India. Even today Israel teches their children this fact and Israel has always helped India whenever they faced a crisis out of respect and the help they gave generations before.

So that was the culture India enjoyed but unfortunately Islam came to india like it came everywhere in the world. It came in the form of invaders conquering, murdering, destroying anything and everything and so on. The Northern India suffered much of the atrocities commited by Islamist leaders while the South was left alone. But as their rule began to stabilize and Islam itself began to immerse into the Indian culture it gradually lost it's sharp tone and evolved and expanded like never before. This can be seen very clearly as Islam began to spread peacefully to South India through songs, dance, trade, cuisines etc. Rulers like Akbar were hailed as the greatest rulers India has ever seen for this simple reason. They may have came as conquerors but they became conquered by the culture that existed in India in return. But resentment still festered in the North. Everything was forgiven but never forgotten. This was the resentment the British used to split India and this exists even today even after Independence. Even in the South during British conquest they spread lies regarding Tippu Sultan and his armies, that he destroyed temples of Hindu's to rally kings of Kerala against the Sultan. But time proved the Sultan was a great leader and infact never did anything of that sort as the British accused. Infact his rule was one of the most prosperous rule the South India has ever seen.

The new NDA government tried their best to implement a correction to the constitution but failed due to low numbers in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian democracy. This bill outlayed the formation of a uniform civil code for all Indians irrespective of caste, creed, language, religion or anything for that matter. In the end it failed but the new generation realised the importance of this bill. It would be a solution to the resentment between religions and different castes in India and truly unify the people like in the past.

The 2019 elections were a serious affair for not just India but many other nations as well. The last five years the Indian state became a soft power in the world, easily entering the hearts of many rather than the head. With a UPA government in power many of the nations like Japan, Australia and US feared an isolationist government again but fortunately the opposition parties failed spectacularly against the NDA. What with them fielding sons, daughters, cousins, nephews, nieces of old political leaders in all constituencies of India. The end result was BJP alone took above 300 seats in the parliament. They could again rule without the NDA parties like last time if needed.

Well this was a good thing for Siddharth's base. As far as he is concerned they are the front line defence against China. With a strong government in power they can proceed with the secret strategic and military corporation with US in the Island. But now he was in a rush to his Thejus MK2 aircraft as there has been strange activities in Bay of Bengal. All he was told was to observe and report. He didn't know if there was an incursion by Chinese aircrafts as they could access the sea from Myanmar which is under their influence to some extent.

The Thejus MK2 is reported to be completed by 2022 but if you are just believing official reports alone your loss not mine. Anyways he flew the aircraft up into the sky leaving the safety of his base. Within minutes he approached the designated location and what he saw was something out of this world. A ring of rainbow was formed in the sky emitting strange energies.

"Base are you seeing this." He asked out loud

" We are seeing this Thunderbird. Approach closer to the ring but keep a safe distance." the base responded

With caution he circled the Aircraft around the ring to the other side and suddenly from the very centre of the ring an energy pulsed outwards. The systems in his aircraft blared alarm sounds as he lost control of the aircraft. He tried to contact the base but all he got was static from the other end. A strong wind blade came from the ring which sheared off a wing of his aircraft. With no other choice he ejected from the plane and that was his mistake.

The moment he ejected he became suspended in the sky facing the ring. The ring suddenly exploded and six different lights began to take form and as he looked closer it took his breath away. He saw something he had seen in the movies. Infinity stones began circling in the space where the rainbow ring was. The stones began to pour energy together into the centre of the circle it made and with a boom the energy struck him. He screamed like he screamed never before. His entire body became overwhelmed in a matter of Nano seconds. The seat that he sat burned away from him as did his clothes and with a yank the stones pulled him into the circle they created and he knew no more.

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Siddharth woke up with a groan as the sunlight pierced his eyes. He had a very strange dream last night. He sat up and opened his eyes but he found he was surrounded by trees. He blinked his eyes many times and looked again but the scene never changed. He stood up quickly and looked around him and he saw he was surrounded by forests everywhere. He wanted to panic but he quickly sat down and took a meditative pose. He practiced Pranayama for some time to calm his mind and focus.

After he was confident that he would not panic he stood up and looked down upon himself. He was wearing a costume like the ancient one in the Dr. Strange movie. Well he had once dressed up like this in the Air base when there was a party and the theme was Avengers. But the here and now he could not put his head around what happened to him. He listened for any sounds and he heard a stream running nearby. He quickly followed the sound and weaved through the thick trees and their roots on the ground littered with rocks and grass. Finally he found the stream and looked around but there was no one there. He walked near the stream and took some water to wash his face and hands.

"This is totally fucked up." he said with a little heat

"I totally agree young man." someone spoke from behind him

Siddharth froze and slowly stood up and very cautiously turned, afraid of who was behind him. He could not believe his eyes as he saw an old man with similar clothes as he wore standing infront of a yellow ring.

"Welcome Siddharth Suryanarayan. I was expecting you." the old man said in perfect English

Siddharth felt his head spin and he fell down like a sack of potatoes. His vision blurred and he once again entered the realm of dreams.

AUTHORS NOTE :

So how about that. I know some would not agree on many points. I would like to point out this is a fiction and I needed this atmosphere for my character. I thought about other ways and couldn't really find anything attractive enough to pursue and let me assure you that there is no joint air base in Andaman. I just wanted someone up in the air so I created that up. The politics that I have intriduced is my view after the elections. I thought the NDA would win but not to this extend so I seeked the truth myself and spoke to some fellow Indians across different states in the age category of 20- 25 and this was the majority answer I got so I have used it here.

As for the serious accusations I am pointing out on the British is absolutely true. Love the Americans though. They showed who is boss to the Brits.