HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF

 

History is repeating itself  and our country is facing  exactly the same  dangerous situation as in  the year 1962

Photo of THE  Tea Estate Sankos  in  ASSAM  in 1962

AUTHOR AT SANKOS TEA ESTATE ASSAM IN 1962

 YEAR 1962/ INDO-CHINESE CONFLICT/ PLACE: ASSAM

CHINESE AGGRESSION  1962

This personal Report of the events of this war will tell how we gullible Indians were fooled by the Chinese then and this Indo-Chinese war was also a glaring example of how  the  political power bungled then. The unfortunate part is our not learning any lessons from the past and repeating the same mistakes.

As Chinese troops continued their action in Assam along the border, the Indian government did not disclose the real threat and slogans of HINDI CHINI BHAI BHAI  were raised by the leadership who allowed the Chinese to roll into the plains of Assam. The public was unaware of the development and conflict that had started on the Borders of Assam. Subsequently the leadership in New Delhi did everything to cover up the debacle. The author of India China war ,Neville Maxwell, clearly puts the responsibility for the disaster and humiliating defeat of our motherland on the leadership  and the military commanders of 1962.

How casually the leadership viewed the situation is depicted in the following cartoon;

OUR PRIME MINISTER IN COLOMBO WHEN CHINESE CONFLICT STARTED

This cartoon depicts the announcement by the prime minister, who was on a visit to Colombo , saying “Chinese have attacked and I have asked the army to throw them out.”

Nobody had any inkling of the setbacks as there was no mention in the newspapers till two Indian army officers , one Major and one Captain suddenly came to our home in Sankos Tea Estate in eastern Doars in tattered clothes, in a very bad shape, having travelled for days through dense forests and  crossing the fast flowing  Sankos river adjacent to our home in a Raft, to our tea estate.

These officers narrated the horrible  tales of  defeats and of  how our  men were butchered in Se La Pass being surrounded from both sides ,leaving no survivors. The Chinese came in hordes and our manpower and equipment were too inadequate for any resistance.

Their narration pressed the panic button and all planters were simply terrorized.  Europeans’ terror was heightened by their belief in the Prophecy “Yellow race will rule the world” and  they just wanted to flee .

Every disaster brings the prevalent corruption in the country to the fore. The money allocated for making roads and bridges had disappeared  and instead of  roads for Indian army  Tanks there were still mule tracks. Even after the conflict when India received  heavy woolen clothing, footwear, blankets and powdered milk for the army stationed in the snowy region ,it never reached the Indian army.

The fact that is  most  perturbing  is that nothing has changed . People will keep waiting for the reforms that are not possible till all departments are ready to change outdated policies and citizens decide not to accept status quo.

YEAR 2020/ SAME FAKE FRIENDSHIP  WITH CHINA/SAME DENIAL MODE(ALL IS WELL)/ SAME DANGEROUS THREAT TO INDIA BY CHINESE INTRUSION IN LADAKH