On October 20, 1962, China attacked India across the border on many fronts in Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh. Once it defeated the heavily outnumbered Indian troops and achieved its objectives of “teaching India a lesson,” it declared a unilateral ceasefire. Cut to October 2020. India faces a hostile China again on the border, where the communist country has ended “peace and tranquillity” of the last five decades in bloodshed. India has, however, revamped border infrastructure significantly since the Narendra Modi government came to power in 2014.
In an informative interview, Rahul Kumar speaks to Probal Dasgupta on the current stand-off at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) and how the situation is different today.
