Comments on: Book Review: Himalayan Blunder

By: sumeet bhat

sumeet bhat — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:45:08 +0000

though we consider pandit nehru as a great patriot, but i feel otherwise.his policies on accession of princely states, kashmir, his chinese policy iffel all were blunders.

By: m

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:12:59 +0000

Happy to buy book and send to you. But i am not in India

By: anup

anup — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:22:52 +0000

Nehru sorry for the people of Assam and the Chinese advance 50kn from Tezpur
Nehru addressed the nation, in which he bade goodbye to Assam, saying ‘My heart goes out to the people of Assam’ is still a class act . Imagine our current PM Dr Manmohan making a similar statement today in Parliament…. his government would have to quit in no timw!

But not Nehru, for Nehru was the PM who could do wrong. Besides, what good was Assam for India… after all Nehru WAS sorry, wasn’t he?
Check: (i) http://www.navhindtimes.in/opinions/7063-bleeding-assam-cries-out-for-attention
(ii) http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/nov/11chin.htm

Besides, Gen Kaul ( who had no battle experience) was relative… and Nehru didn’t mind keeping things in the family…. so Kaul was allowed to mess up an Army’s efforts

By: Alok Sahai

Alok Sahai — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:14:52 +0000

Recently I confronted a friend of mine when very assertivrly he confimed that nothing has changed relatively since 1962 Indo-China humiliating war. same way we had ill dressed and equiped army during Kargil, and hopelessly trained police on 26/11 during Mumbai terror attach.

Shame on all of us,
We are becoming very insensitive as a proud nation,No one backs cowards, we need to fix our own issues. Nepal moved away from us to China.
We shall work to see that Sri Lanka, Nepal, Burma join and become part of India, to start with. We have such traditional relationship with yellow race counties, we should have very special relationship with them. We need to have compulsory defence training for everyone for two years and one month evey tow years.
We need to be physically and mentally strong nation, we shall be able to take pride in our country, history.
It is never late.

By: kamal mathur

kamal mathur — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:29:32 +0000

It is really distressing to see that our politicians, irrespective of their party affiliations are still not at all bothered about the Chinese threat. Our forces need better firepower, better aircraft ,better warships ,better equipment . But the Government is not in a hurry to buy them.They call it procedural delays. Why are there no procedural delays when a Chief Minister wants to buy the latest aircraft for himself/herself.Why are there no procedural delays when our politicians & babus have to go abroad on holidays in the garb of study tours.Why are there no procedural delays when our Netas indulge in gimmicks to get extra votes.It’s shameful ! It’s criminal negligence.It is high time that they start thinking about the country ,it’s integrity & security.

By: S.Ravikumar

S.Ravikumar — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:08:45 +0000

Right from elementary level to college, all the text books showing our national leaders independence struggle and how they fought to get the freedom, but such kind of failures not mentioned in the records to safe guard their names and images not cares of Nation’s interest.
INDIRA GANDHI’S policies on security arrangement and plans to modernise the our defense system was really miracules and she was very stubborn on such issues.
After Indira Gandhi, no one else took a serious view on neighbour countries attitudes and their movements, since every one busy detaining their posts and fighting each other with in the parties, between the parties, between the religionity,casts, languages, water sharing issues and no one party having common goal on national security.

Ministers busy swalloing public money for their inevsestment in elections.
Even some higher defence officials and judges involving in money & land scam.
Police officials busy hunting of females like Ruchika and some of the political leaders escorting them.
Even public, them selves not united and care about nation, busy fighting to own a sepaerate states,districs,taluks and even at our home itself not united.

Slowly all the party leaders bringing their kin and kith to their posts. In the name of democarcy, imperialism ruling our nation.
Its not too late, still every one, particulalry politicians should care about our nation’s security interest rather than their own interest.
But still, we advertise that we are living together and we are united.
Let us see each other freindly manner and trust each other.We Indians are hard workers and intelligent in all the feilds but still lacking in unity. If we are through in this particular issue, no one can think to shake our precious nation.

By: jagan

jagan — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:39:54 +0000

it is so upsetting to read even a few excerpts. we can all get upset and be bitter on individuals. as an Indian we should be able to stand on our own two feet. as long as the politicians are only interested in looking after their own interests but not the national interests, I don’t think that there is going to be much change. if we look at our neighbours with better organised military it is unavoidable to note the different form of government. I begin to wonder if we deserve democracy

By: Arun

Arun — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:53:42 +0000

I personally feel after reading the book that if Indian Army or Indian Govt. had a task force to implement “What went wrong” and points raised in the book, then Indian ARMY can face any chinease threat.

By: Prashant

Prashant — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:05:53 +0000

This shows clearly how nehru and its congress want to hide the truth.
1962 was a shame on INDIA but still we are able to learn lessons, we simly like to hide the truth.

Could not imagine how a PM could be so cowards ?
“A single blade of grass does not grow there” so…
Thats the importance given to the national security by nehru.
Basically he was fool.. when one of army’s senior officer was talking to him about modernization of army he replied “Who is going to attck us ? “.

My god can you all imagine.. he was thinking himself as a world leader and a nobel prize winner for world peace .

Now we could understand why jinnah, patel and so many leaders were not willing to make him as PM of independent INDIA.

By: abhishek

abhishek — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:58:16 +0000

hey this book is not truly banned,i am reading its original english version by natraj publishers dehradun.