Tag Archives: Jawaharlal Nehru

• Honour the Dalai Lama on his 85th birth anniversary 16 July 2020 | NS Venkataraman This post has 2 comments

  Jawaharlal Nehru was a peace-loving man, and would certainly be happy that the mistake done by him would be corrected by conferring the award that was named after him to the Dalai Lama, the apostle of peace. ...

• Dalai Lama forgets Nehru’s efforts 24 August 2018 | PK Vasudeva This post has one comment

  The Dalai Lama should have avoided this uncalled-for verdict on Jinnah and Nehru because the Government of India had clearly conveyed that he should not indulge in any political activities. ...

• Dalai Lama apologises for saying Nehru opposed Gandhi’s wish to make Jinnah PM 10 August 2018 | Nagarjun Dwarakanath This post has one comment

  The Dalai Lama had said Gandhi was willing to give Muhammad Ali Jinnah the Indian prime minister post, but Jawaharlal Nehru had refused. Now, he says he's sorry if that remark was incorrect. ...

• ‘Self-centered’ Nehru’s decision led to partition of India: Dalai Lama 9 August 2018 This post has 2 comments

  Had Jawaharlal Nehru not been self-centred, India and Pakistan would have been one country, the Dalai Lama said, adding that while Nehru was gifted with experience, mistakes do occur. ...

• Mao’s strategy, not Nehru’s policy, led to war: Lintner 12 December 2017 | Indrani Bagchi This post has one comment

  It wasn't Jawaharlal Nehru's 'Forward Policy' of 1961 that caused the war with China in 1962. Instead, evidence and insight make it clear that China was planning to attack India since 1959. ...

• Nehru’s cowardice, Modi’s courage: Should India now say Tibet is not part of China? 5 April 2017 | Ugyen Gyalpo This post has 7 comments

  This one shift on India's policy towards China on Tibet's status would open the floodgates on the Tibet support fronts. ...

• Yuthok’s rejoinder to Gyalo Thondup’s The Noodle Maker 17 September 2016 | Jigmie Dorji Yuthok This post has 8 comments

  I have only discussed a small portion of The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong, addressing inaccuracies and falsehoods about which I have some personal knowledge. ...

• Nehru permitted CIA spy planes to use Indian air base 16 August 2013 This post has no comments yet

  India allowed the US to use one of its air bases for refuelling the CIA's U-2 spy planes to target Chinese territories after its defeat in the 1962 war, a declassified official document said today. ...

• The war we lost – 1962 Sino-Indian conflict 5 October 2012 | BG Verghese This post has no comments yet

  THE 1962 Sino-Indian conflict is half a century old, but to understand what happened, one needs to go further back to Indian independence and the creation of the PRC. ...