India needs to increase its impact by increasing awareness about strategies for security, said former Governor of Chhattisgarh, Shekhar Dutt while giving a lecture on the eve of death anniversary of Pt Makhanlal Chaturvedi in Makhanlal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication in Bhopal.

Two thousand years ago, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Afghanistan and others were all in the impact area of India and our culture was respected throughout the world. The evidence of this is seen in many countries of the world even today.

Other speaker on the occasion was Sheshadri Chari who expressed his views on the occasion. The function was presided over by the Vice-Chancellor of the University Prof. Brij Kishore Kuthiala.

Shekhar Dutt, in his address, said that Aadi Shankarayacharya had imagined of India as a nation 2000 years ago, evidences of which could be found in the religious mythologies. A vast India could be seen in Ramayana and Mahabharata. The effects of Indianism were prevalent in whole Indo-China. From military and geographical point of view, it was imperative to have India’s control over Indian Ocean which we are not able to do.

Strategically, we need to improve our relations with Vietnam. The way China has maintained a diplomatic relationship with Pakistan, we need to have similar relationships with Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, Bali, Sumatra and others.  He said that we also need to teach strategic journalism to journalism students as today’s generation of the country are completely unaware about the strategic and military subjects. Therefore, we need to run courses which incorporate these subjects. The concept of vast India would not only make India a powerful nation but would empower India on all fronts like economic, social and culture which is important to lead the world.

 The other speaker of the function, senior journalist and former Editor of Organiser, Sheshadri Chari said, “We should not leave the subjects of strategic security completely on administrators and military but bring them to the common man for which we need to prepare a National Security Document. Since the first war of independence in 1857 till country’s freedom, there were several occasions where in we could have thought over the strategic security and increased India’s dominance but we could not.