Tashi Phuntsok’s write-up “India’s Tibet Dilemma” in “The Readers’ Turn” section (published in the Oct. 28–Nov. 3 edition) is a very good analysis of India, China, and Tibet issues that have plagued the relations for decades, and even centuries.
I may add to it and also join the writer in blasting India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, for his unwise and inept handling of the subject. Nehru was a blundering and impractical politician. He complicated not only Tibet and India’s North East but also Jammu & Kashmir state. [The latter was left to the current prime minister, Narendra Modi, to act decisively and display courage and competence. He tackled its on-going separatist and terrorist “culture” and ended its “special status” by abrogating the temporary Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, and brought it in line with the other Indian states.]
