Indian democracy's chaotic nature rescued PM Modi after his muddled messages from the all-party meeting even as 2 messages from Galwan clash went out into the world.
Ladakh’s barren landscape used to be populated by tourists, until PLA incursion in Galwan Valley and the killing of 20 Indian soldiers turned it into the ground zero of LAC conflict.
According to government reply in Lok Sabha, the pilot phase of PMIS is being used to test concepts, strategies and systems before a full-scale implementation of the scheme.
Order for 87 MALE drones will be split between 2 Indian firms in 64:36 ratio to ensure there are 2 independent manufacturing lines with at least 60% indigenous components.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
The British left broken nations and undemarcated borders in every country they colonised. Their divide and rule policy ensured that even in the future the borders remain hot contestations between a divided and warring people.
This is seen in so many African and Asian countries who remain underdeveloped because they have too little to spend on their health and education after massive military spending.
Shouldn’t the colonial powers owe reparations?
These capitalist countries are enjoying high levels of development today after destroying the colonies.
The entire write up seems pointless. The Prime Ministership was gifted to Mr. Manmohan Singh. He never won a Lok Sabha seat and has virtually no connect to the aam aadmi. We are indeed fortunate that his utopian plans did not materialize. Magnanimous thoughts ‘irrelevant borders’ are not unique. Their untimely implementation can only spell disaster. One Jawahar lal Nehru is enough for us.
It is time for the government or at least some interested NGO ( why not RGF!) to publish 1950 map of India and then show how subsequently we have been losing territory to the control of China and then show the current line of physical control and LAC up to where we believe we can patrol. Juxtapose that with the Chinese claims and we can see where exactly is the issue. Every time we are told India lost its territory to China without telling us why did we lose it if it was ours and had physically control on it. One cant imagine our territory without having our physical control. Let us do the reality check and then find out how much area we physically controlled and lost to Chinese since 2014.
As Ninan says if our claims on Aksai Chin were not as strong, then why we did not agree to the package deal in 1959 and finished off the matter? Can we agree at least now to make that offer to Chinese ? Will Congress support such a move? We need a debate on this issue to have a clear understanding of what we are fighting for.
All of your suggestions are good. The only way to solve the border problems with our neighbors is to sit down at the table with them and make reasonable exchanges. This stupid legacy of the British Raj should come to an end.
But looking at what Sonia and Rahul have commented these days, the madness is going to continue for a while.
Borders did become irrelevant in the whole continent of Europe. What that needs is the enabling environment.
Look at the US. Its southern border with Mexico is very much there and active. Its northern border with Canada remains relaxed and is not an issue.
Of course borders are not autonomous, and are the result of other events. Statesmen attempt to influence events in manners that prevent need for violence and jingoistic nationalism over borders.
That is what Manmohan Singh was trying. Because he could not complete the process is no reason to give up that thought.
The British left broken nations and undemarcated borders in every country they colonised. Their divide and rule policy ensured that even in the future the borders remain hot contestations between a divided and warring people.
This is seen in so many African and Asian countries who remain underdeveloped because they have too little to spend on their health and education after massive military spending.
Shouldn’t the colonial powers owe reparations?
These capitalist countries are enjoying high levels of development today after destroying the colonies.
The entire write up seems pointless. The Prime Ministership was gifted to Mr. Manmohan Singh. He never won a Lok Sabha seat and has virtually no connect to the aam aadmi. We are indeed fortunate that his utopian plans did not materialize. Magnanimous thoughts ‘irrelevant borders’ are not unique. Their untimely implementation can only spell disaster. One Jawahar lal Nehru is enough for us.
Good article, but spoiled by the second part of the title.
It is time for the government or at least some interested NGO ( why not RGF!) to publish 1950 map of India and then show how subsequently we have been losing territory to the control of China and then show the current line of physical control and LAC up to where we believe we can patrol. Juxtapose that with the Chinese claims and we can see where exactly is the issue. Every time we are told India lost its territory to China without telling us why did we lose it if it was ours and had physically control on it. One cant imagine our territory without having our physical control. Let us do the reality check and then find out how much area we physically controlled and lost to Chinese since 2014.
As Ninan says if our claims on Aksai Chin were not as strong, then why we did not agree to the package deal in 1959 and finished off the matter? Can we agree at least now to make that offer to Chinese ? Will Congress support such a move? We need a debate on this issue to have a clear understanding of what we are fighting for.
All of your suggestions are good. The only way to solve the border problems with our neighbors is to sit down at the table with them and make reasonable exchanges. This stupid legacy of the British Raj should come to an end.
But looking at what Sonia and Rahul have commented these days, the madness is going to continue for a while.
Borders did become irrelevant in the whole continent of Europe. What that needs is the enabling environment.
Look at the US. Its southern border with Mexico is very much there and active. Its northern border with Canada remains relaxed and is not an issue.
Of course borders are not autonomous, and are the result of other events. Statesmen attempt to influence events in manners that prevent need for violence and jingoistic nationalism over borders.
That is what Manmohan Singh was trying. Because he could not complete the process is no reason to give up that thought.