5 Indian youths handed over by China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) to Indian Army, at Kibithu in Anjaw district.
Indian Army and People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China during an event to hand over 5 Indian youths by PLA, at Kibithu in Anjaw district.
Indian Army handed over 13 yaks and four calves that strayed across the LAC, in East Arunachal Pradesh to China
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu after hoisting the National Flag during the Independence Day function at the Indira Gandhi Park, in Itanagar.
Six NSCN (IM) insurgents were killed in an encounter with security forces in Khonsa area of Arunachal Pradesh. One soldier of Assam Rifles was injured in the operation.
Arms and ammunition recovered after six NSCN (IM) insurgents were killed in an encounter with security forces in Khonsa area of Arunachal Pradesh. One soldier of Assam Rifles was i...
Debris after a massive landslide following incessant rainfall in which four members of a family perished, in Papum Pare.
In this undated photo, a Striped Hairstreak butterfly perches on a leaf, at Vijaynagar in Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh. The butterfly has been added to the list of India...
Indian Air Force (IAF) CH-47F(I) Chinook helicopter being loaded with essential supplies, provided by Food & Civil Supplies Minister Kamlung Mossang, to be airlifted to Vijoynagar ...
Assam Rifle with Arunachal Pradesh Police pose for the media after apprehending an active cadre of NSCN(K), at Changlang district of Arunachal Pradesh.
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu interacts with officials during an inspection of a quarantine facility for COVID-19 patients, at Police Training Centre in Banderdewa, ...
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu carries out spot verification at Banderdewa check gate in Arunachal-Assam border to ensure that all points of entry into the state are ...
A worker transfers sacks of food grains from a vehicle to a chopper for distribution among residents living in remote places, during a nationwide lockdown in the wake of coronaviru...
Union Home Minister Amit Shah receives a memento from Arunachal Chief Minister Pema Khandu during 34th Statehood Day celebrations, in Itanagar.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is greeted by Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal upon his arrival in Lakhimpur, to attend the 34th Statehood Day of Arunachal Pradesh.
Artists perform during the 34th Statehood Day of Arunachal Pradesh, in Tawang district.
Artists performs as Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrives to attend the 34th Statehood Day of Arunachal Pradesh, in Lakhimpur Kheri district. Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowa...
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is greeted by Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal at the airport as he arrives to attend the 34th Statehood Day of Arunachal Pradesh, in Lakhimpur...
Arunachal Pradesh Governor Brig. B.D. Mishra (Retd.) and Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu during 71st Republic Day celebration in Itanagar.
Devotees perform Tor-Gya, a monastic dance at Tawang monastery in Tawang.
Writing in the Hindustan Times, an alarmed Prem Shankar Jha says that given the Chinese sensitivities vis-a-vis India, "the immediate need is to persuade the Dalai Lama to postpone his visit to Tawang":
The resulting confrontation has now acquired a life of its own and is leading the two countries towards a war that neither wants. The calibrated escalation of China’s demands and actions suggests that the point of no return will be the Dalai Lama’s visit to Tawang in November. Wen Jiabao’s request for a meeting with Manmohan Singh in Bangkok should, therefore, be seen as a last ditch effort to avert war...
Fortunately for India, reversing the escalation does not require making humiliating concessions. All that New Delhi needs to do is clear up the misapprehensions that have taken root in the Chinese leaders’ minds.
Read the full piece at the HT: It's a Dim Sum Game
Such suggestions seem to be of a piece with the recent “strategic reassurance” given by Barack obama to China by his refusal to meet the Dalai Lama during the latter's visit to Washington. While Obama may have been bestowed with a Nobel Peace Prize soon thereafter, Maureen Dowd in a recent column quoted Vaclav Havel to put it in perspective: “It is only a minor compromise. But exactly with these minor compromises start the big and dangerous ones, the real problems.” Gabbar Singh had put it pithily in Sholay, "jo Dar gayaa samjho mar gayaa".
