Letters: The 1962 misadventure

This refers to V Jayaraman's letter "The ghosts of 1962" (March 20). Images of the 1962 India-China war will continue to haunt till the full Henderson Brooks report is released. All the media noise has deliberately missed the crux of the problem which pertains to the main culprit in the entire misadventure - Jawaharlal Nehru. Nehru's Discovery of India, shows Aksai Chin as not part of India. Suddenly in 1953-54, a bee in the bonnet caused old maps to be burnt and new ones to be unilaterally issued. A border settlement would require going back to 1857, scrapping the devious Simla pact of 1914, admitting Nehru's blunder and exorcising the belief that we were innocent victims in 1962, and that the Chinese cannot be trusted. We need to educate our people that it was also our fault, be transparent, not withhold facts and build up a consensus. Those who swear they will not let go even an inch of territory, should be given guns and sent to the border.

T R Ramaswami, Mumbai

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