Scarred by war, Nehru destroyed message from Zhou

'He struck a match, and held the paper to the flames... He said it would take more than a quarter of a century to return to any substantive negotiation, provided the Chinese refrained from another......

President's address to the Parliament

Following is the trascriptof President Pratibha Patil's address to the joint sittingof Parliament on Thursday.Honourable Members, I convey my good wishes to you and to all our people. On behalf of......

'India dislikes being told what to do'

'Not now, not ever.' --Arundhati Ghose, India's ambassador to the United Nations Committee on Disarmament, while vetoing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, in Geneva, August 1996.Ghose, who grew up......

The lamb that roared

Wing Commander (retd) R V Parasnis, who so chivalrously defended me in the message board, points out that "The Pakistani invasion began on the 22nd of October 1947 and not in 1948 as you have......