Tagged: Dalai Lama

“My Dear Jawaharlal” – Sardar Patel on China

Courtesy VigilOnline, these fascinating excerpts from a letter penned by Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel to PM Jawaharlal Nehru (emphasis mine). I wonder the India that might have been had the Sardar lived longer. *** Excerpts...

China’s claim over Tibet is questionable

From a Sify report on a seminar held last Friday at IIC on ‘1914 Shimla Convention Agreement and Consequences’ (emphasis mine): The fact that the Chinese refused to ink the 1914 Shimla Convention agreement...

Crisis in Darfur – Who will bell the cat?

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy on the crisis in Darfur quoted in Guernica, June 2008: …I was there (in Darfur)…just one year ago nearly to the day, smuggling myself across the border with Chad, crossing 500, 600 kilometers of...

India and China: Apples and Oranges

Many of you probably�read B Raman’s open letter to Aamir Khan in rediff recently. In the article Shri Raman made several points about why (and how) India and China are fundamentally different and how...

News thats really not *news*

Pakistan still training terror outfits: India “….National Security Advisor M K Narayanan recently said one of the greatest dangers India faced was terror camps being run on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border by the Al-Qaeda and the...