1962 India-China war: How scholars misled Indians – a case study

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with troops at a forward position during the 1962 India-China war.Dissecting Claude Arpi’s 1962 India-China war claimsDuring my studies on the hitherto obscure aspects of the 1962 India-China war, particularly wi...

LAC imbroglio: India needs to shed its hesitancy in dealing with China

Indian and Chinese troops disengaging from a friction point at Pangong-tso in eastern Ladakh after Indian troops captured dominating heights in the Kailash Ranges, in 2020. (Photo: Indian Army)The power and strength of the national security apparatus...

Threat of China annexing Tawang is real. What must India do?

The Tawang Monastery. (Photo by Rajat Chakraborty/Unsplash.)Arunachal Pradesh – which is also called the “land of dawn-lit mountains” – is the 24th state of India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (N...

India must move earnestly and quickly to settle border dispute with China

The India-Tibet border with disputed territories marked in yellow. India and China never shared a common border until China annexed Tibet, a process it started in 1950. This brought the dragon right to our doorstep. With its annexation of Tibet,...

1962 India-China War – 1: The reality of a military defeat

Indian troops surrendering at the Namka-chu area. This is part of the series on the 1962 India-China border war that seeks to debunk the myths, misinformation and politics spun around India’s debacle in the North-East Frontier Agency.Gener...

‘Weather as Weapon’: New threat emerging from China-controlled Tibet

The Tibet plateau has a long association with India from ancient times. Descendants of Tibetan tribes came and settled in parts of north India centuries ago, like the Kinnauri-speaking people of Himachal Pradesh. We shared trade and other cultural ti...