THIRUKURAL 583 : On Intelligence Agency

Intelligence Agency

Bombay is the symbol of wealth and progress of India. It was attacked by terrorists in some places on 26-Nov, 2008 killing 183 people and wounding several others. Terrorists from Pakistan entered through the sea route and carried the operation.

Intelligence Bureau (IB) of India failed to prevent it. Attack sent a strong message to India that the terrorists are capable of micro planning. It can not be forgotten that there should have been numerous failed attempts by the terrorists.

Thiruvalluvar says, a country should have a strong intelligence agency with an excellent spy net work to safe guard the interest of the country.In India RAW ( Research and Analysis Wing ), IB (Intelligence Bureau) are doing good work after the Bombay attack. These agencies further require sophisticated modern equipments and increased man power.

The Pakistan's notorously known ISI (Inter Service Intelligence) is one of the strongest intelligence agencies with well trained spies spread all over the globe, it is said to have 10,000 spies in India. India has to compete with ISI and other countries strong intelligence agencies like Moosard of Isreal, CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) of USA, SIS (Secret Intelligence Service ) of UK etc.

Terrorists are changing their strategies, they may try to destroy the economy by circulating fake currencies, curb the future of the students by supplying free drugs, brain wash people by false propaganda etc. In the Kural 583 it is clearly said that a country should have a successful net work of spies to get effective intelligence, otherwise it would not succeed in any field. The enemy will root out the country in all the aspects. Bombay attack was a wake up call to India.

In the modern context it is very much applicable in the Marketing field, "market intelligence" is the process of acquiring informations to study the attitude and behavior of any market. Accordingly the long term strategies and short term  tactics are designed to challenge the competitors. Actions taken on market intelligence will help to attract more clients and ultimately lead to more sales.

See the essence of the kural 583:

" The Kings who do NOT gather effective intelligence using a strong net work of spies and ignore the spies reports will not succeed in any of their efforts".
Kings = Modern  Governments or Corporate companies
Spies = Spies of Govt.or field workers of Market intelligence

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கொற்றம் கொளக் கிடந்தது இல் (583)