Lessons from the 1962 debacle

India’s younger generation can barely comprehend the humiliation, trauma, shame and anger that prevailed in the immediate aftermath of the diplomatic, military and strategic debacle in the 1962 border conflict with China. Responding to former President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s admonition of his “credulity” and “negligence”, former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had acknowledged, “We were getting out of touch with reality in the modern world and living in an artificial atmosphere of our own making”.

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