A new book attempts to dispel the notion that India was the provocateur in the 1962 war with China. 'China's India War' by Bertil Lintner says that China had caught India by surprise and it had a simple objective.
In 2003, Hindu groups laid siege to a dargah in Karnataka, calling it the Ayodhya of South. Here is what Gauri Lankesh wrote about it on 3 December 2003 in Lankesh Patrike.
In his latest book titled 'The New Wealth of Nations', Bhalla explains how a universal income for the poor is a welfare system whose time may have come across the world.
Shashi Kapoor, the luminous, talented, dimpled and twinkle-eyed charmer of Indian cinema, died at the age of 79 after a prolonged period of immobility and fragile health.
What foreign investors need is certainty in tax laws and not a tax-free environment, the former President and finance minister argues to justify his controversial tax decision.
High value of 350-acre Ford plant property drove TN to encourage Ford to return over nearly a yr of negotiations. It's expected to reinforce state's resurgence as global manufacturing hub.
Air Marshal Amar Preet Singh will take over as chief on 30 September. During his service of nearly 40 yrs, he has served in variety of command, staff, instructional & foreign appointments.
Sri Lankan transition was smoothly managed. Check Bangladesh for contrast. They forced their incumbent into exile, installed a mostly unelectable govt of non-political people.
The Henderson-Brooks Report has still not been released in full by the Indian Government after 55 years.
And regarding war preparations, most nations prepare for war at all times against their perceived enemies, see NATO. Even if China had made preparations in 1959 they didn’t attack India then but only in 1962 after Nehru’s provocative Forward Policy and several ignored warnings from the Chinese including those through diplomatic channels.
The truth is that the Indians gambled thinking the Chinese were in no shape to fight another war after the Korean one and the disaster of their Great Leap Forward. They were proved wrong.
The Henderson-Brooks Report has still not been released in full by the Indian Government after 55 years.
And regarding war preparations, most nations prepare for war at all times against their perceived enemies, see NATO. Even if China had made preparations in 1959 they didn’t attack India then but only in 1962 after Nehru’s provocative Forward Policy and several ignored warnings from the Chinese including those through diplomatic channels.
The truth is that the Indians gambled thinking the Chinese were in no shape to fight another war after the Korean one and the disaster of their Great Leap Forward. They were proved wrong.