“It is worth keeping in mind that the Chinese on the whole have a profound contempt for the Indians, and also a sense of very considerable superiority towards them ... While an Indian on occasion may be sentimental, the Chinese is essentially a realist ... on the personality side while the Indians are frequently superior, the Chinese Communist leaders are physically and morally of an altogether tougher breed and fibre. - A note filed by British officers in the Foreign Office in May 1950, presenting ..

SUCH derogatory references can be available in innumerable books and records of the top Indian military commanders about the Chinese invasion of 1962. Each of those high-ranking officers made sincere efforts to approach the political leadership of that time -- Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Defence Minister Mr. Krishna Menon plus others -- to convince them to draw up a considered strategic and security policy and act accordingly. But all those approaches went unheard, and what actually ..

Did China send the forces on its own, or was it provoked by India -- and/or also by the United State’s covert operations in Tibet first launched during Eisenhower presidency and later approved by President Mr. J.F. Kennedy? Was Pandit Nehru’s haphazardly implemented Forward Policy provoke China? Did China feel emboldened by Pandit Nehru’s half-baked and impractical romanticism about India-China friendship? ..

There is a tendency in the Indian society to think that everything is to be done by the Government. That is unfortunately the most misplaced understanding of what the Government as such can and will be able to do. Factually speaking, it is pointless to expect the politically-oriented minds to do much in this regard -- since they are geared to think only from the point of view of direct or indirect and narrow political gains in five-year time-slots...

 By Vijay phanshikar : Based on MaxMuller’s observation, the British introduced a massive and systematic and patient plan to inject into the Indian mind tendencies of perfect slaves. India was a British colony, and its residents had to follow..

It needs to be noted that Mr. Omar Abdullah is insisting upon restoration of statehood, but appears to have dropped the demand for the restoration of Special Status to the region (which the Centre had abrogated on August 5, 2019). This demand was actually one of the main planks of the I.N.D.I. Alliance during the recent legislative elections. ..

l New Delhi, September 30 (PTI): Effects of Covid-19 lockdown on Earth may have reached the moon, as lunar temperatures were found to have dipped abnormally during the April-May 2020, according to a study. Maximum temperatures of the Earth’s natural satellite fell in this period, while nights were found to be cooler by 8-10 degrees Celsius. The Moon, thus, could possibly serve as a “stable platform” to study climate change on Earth, K. Durga Prasad and G. Ambily, researchers at the Physical Research ..

E VEN as winning medals in international sports competitions has almost become a matter of science -- in the sense a lot of scientifically curated efforts are required to produce champions out of bright individuals, the need is felt in India efforts to create a basic talent pool mostly through schools and subsequently colleges.Though schools and colleges do have their sporting activities, very rarely do we come across very focused efforts to carve out champions in a true sense from the bunch of ..

l Paris, September 4 (PTI): World champion Sachin Sarjerao Khilari clinched a Silver in Men’s Shot-Out F46 event with an Asian record distance of 16.32 meters as the country’s track-and-field athletes continued their unprecedented medal-winning run in the Paralympic Games here on Wednesday. Khilaris’ Silver is the 11th Medal from the para-athletes in the ongoing Games and takes India’s overall Medal tally to 21, including three Golds. l Paris, September 5 (PTI): Harvinder Singh became the first Indian ..