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Deconstructin g the 1962 war ‘Hindi-Chinee Bhai Bhai’ When one talks about the cold winter of 1962 that saw snow-capped terrain soaked in blood from Indian as well as Chinese sides, one often tends to forget the events prior to actual war inflicted upon India by China. These events will have to be traced back since 1949, when India had started championing the cause of newly proclaimed People’s Republic of China with Mao Tse-Tung as Chairman and Zhou En-Lai as Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. On October 1, 1949, People’s Republic of China was proclaimed with Communists coming to power, and on December 30, 1949, India became the second non-Communist nation after Burma to recognize it. Soon after, in 1950, China started working on its agenda and sent its troops into Tibet. Similarly, it also meddled into affairs of Korea, following which United Nations putforth a resolution dubbing China as aggressor in Korean war. However, the then Indian Prime Minister Pt ...

The Hitavada’s Black Paper on Irrigation Massive loot in the name of irrigation development in Vidarbha  By Kartik Lokhande  NAGPUR, May 24: THIS is a story of a loot and fraud and abuse of political clout by a handful of people who were expected to turn Maharashtra into a paradise with lush green agricultural fields all over. This is a story that unfolded itself when farmers were hanging themselves or poisoning themselves to death under a terrible burden of debt. This is a story of how a handful few cared a damn for the farmers’ welfare and for the betterment of agriculture and emptied the State Exchequer by countless thousands of crores of rupees by selfish machinations and manipulations even as the farmers cried in silence as their fields went without a drop of water for long stretches of time. This story has been enacted all over Maharashtra, by political personalities, by Contractors with political clout, some of whom have now moved into hal...