Views On News by S. Sankaran
I was really alarmed on reading a news item wherein our Army resorting to Gandhian way of non-violence by forming a human chain to prevent the intrusions of Chinese Army crossing over the international border. The news run thus: “ Up in the Sikkim Himalayas, the Indian Army is engaged in a strange Gandhian tussle with Chinese Army along the international border. Troops are forming human chains to stop the numerous intrusions by the Chinese forces from across the border. “We are literally forming human chains to stop the Chinese from crossing over,” explains a senior officer. “If they come in groups of 20, we may assemble 50 men. We hold hand in hand and form this chain. They can’t after all push us and cross in.” There were many intrusions recently by the Chinese forces along with our northern Himalayan borders, but the Indian Government were not assertive in dealing with these border violations perhaps due to the precarious position in which the Gove...
