Siachen was accepted as Indian Territory in 1949!

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 May 2012

The Boss of Pakistan says: "It's time to resolve the Siachen issue", but what General Kayani forgets is that the Siachen issue was 'solved' long ago, in fact, in July 1949.

I reproduced here an article that I published 7 years...

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Why the Henderson Brooks report has never been released! II

Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 03 April 2012

The September 08 Incident: The situation was getting hotter by the day. In Beijing, Mao Zedong had begun his comeback to the political stage in Beijing. In the morning of September 08, 1962, the Chinese launched a first offensive precisely,...

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Why the Henderson Brooks report has never been released! I

Issue: Vol. 27.2 Apr-Jun 2012 | Date: 02 April 2012

Sir Henry McMahon never envisaged that the hurriedly conducted survey and his drawing of a thick red line on a map could trigger a war. The ‘massive attack’ supposedly planned by India cannot be taken seriously in view of the total...

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Can China afford a war?

Issue: Courtesy: Uday India | Date: 17 February 2012

James Clapper, the Director of the US National Intelligence recently told a Senate Committee on intelligence that the Indian Army was strengthening itself for a ‘limited conflict’ with China: “Despite public statements...

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China preaches non violence ...to others

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 09 February 2012

The Chinese are apparently unhappy with the selection of the  multipurpose combat plane Rafalefor the Indian Air Force.

It is what appears from an article in the People's Daily (French edition only); my...

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Tawang is not part of China!

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 31 January 2012

The Dalai Lama took refuge in India on March 31, 1959. 

He crossed the Indian border at Khenzimane at the bottom of the famous Thagla ridge in West Kameng Frontier Division of the North-East Frontier Agency (today, Tawang District...

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China takes over Nepal

Issue: Net Edition | Date: 28 February 2012

What is going on in Nepal? If one goes by the latest news, nothing good for India. Why did Mr. Shyam Saran, the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy had to pay a quick visit to the former Himalayan Kingdom to meet ‘Prachanda’, the...

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Mao's return to power passed through India

Issue: Vol. 26.3 July - Sept 2011 | Date: 25 March 2012

There is an angle of the 1962Sino-Indian that conflict has been insufficiently studied. What were Beijing’s motivations to go to war? Who decided to inflict the worst possible humiliation on India?

Historical sources are still...

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Tibet and British India II

Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 11 June 2011

The Russian Threat : The element which was to play a major role in Britain’s foreign policy toward Tibet and thereby decide the fate of Tibet as a nation, is what has been called the ‘Russian threat’.

One of the origins...

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Tibet and British India I

Issue: Book Excerpt: Tibet - The Lost Frontier | Date: 11 November 2011

Started in 1600 as a company with shareholders to peacefully and profitably develop trade with the Asian continent, the East India Company was no longer a trading concern by the beginning of the nineteenth century, but rather the military arm...

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