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.
Tagin women celebrate the Si Donyi festival of the tribal community at Daporijo in Arunachal Pradesh.
A view of snow-covered Mechuka following heavy snowfall, in Shi-Yomi district of Arunachal Pradesh.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in a group photo with jawans of the Indian Army during his visit to forward areas in Bumla near Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh interacts with jawans of the Indian Army during his visit to forward areas in Bumla near Tawang, Arunachal Pradesh
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".
