UKHRUL: Siliguri Corridor, India’s narrow land link to its northeastern states, is a 78-year-old anomaly” that Bharat failed to correct in 1971, founder Isha Foundation Sadhguru said.
He was responding to an audience question about the Bangladesh’s interim government’s remarks on Siliguri Corridor, also called the “Chicken’s Neck” during a satsang at Sadhguru Sannidhi Bangalore on Sunday.
Taking to X, Sadhguru later shared, “Siliguri Corridor is a 78-year-old anomaly created by Bharat’s partition, which should have been corrected in 1971. Now that there is an open threat to the nation’s sovereignty, it is time to nourish the chicken and allow it to evolve into an elephant. -Sg”
Sadhguru pointed to missed opportunities following the 1971 Liberation War, noting that the anomaly should have been corrected decades ago. “Maybe in 1946-47 we didn’t have the authority to do that but in ‘72 we had the authority, we did not do that. Now this chicken’s neck, that people have started talking about it, it’s time we nourish this chicken’s neck… so that it evolves quickly into an elephant.”
Sadhguru called for a decisive action to strengthen the country’s territorial integrity and said that fragility cannot be the foundation of a nation.
“So nations cannot be made just by being chicken. It has to grow into an elephant. Maybe it needs nourishment. Maybe it needs some steroids. Whatever is needed, we must do… anything that we try to do has costs, has a price to pay always,” reckoned Sadhguru.
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“Anyway, this anomaly happened only 78 years ago. Some correction is needed. Correction must happen. I think we need to feed the chicken well and make it into an elephant. Elephant’s neck would be easy to handle,” Sadhguru added.
Sadhguru has, on multiple occasions in the past, spoken publicly about the developments in Bangladesh, particularly raising concerns over repeated incidents of violence against Hindu minorities and the destruction of temples.
He has publicly questioned the prolonged silence around violence against Hindus, destruction of temples, and demographic pressure forcing minorities to flee, asserting that such issues cannot be brushed aside as internal matters when they stem from unresolved civilizational and geopolitical fault lines created during partition.
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