Jul. 15 – India and China can join hands to emerge as “India plus China” rather than “India versus China,” P. S. Deodhar suggests in his recent book, ‘Cinasthana Today: Viewing China from India’. This is an interesting perspective in light of the incursion by the Chinese army in the Depsang area of eastern Ladakh in May this year. The incursion was a shock to policy-makers in India, coming as it did after relatively stable bilateral progress over the past few years; for some, it revived the memories of the war in 1962 between India and China.
The author, a former Electronic Technology Advisor to then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, is currently President of the India-China Economic and Cultural Council in New Delhi. The book is largely based on observations during his numerous travels to China.