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In the backdrop of the current faceoff between India and China in Ladakh, I thought it would be useful to recall my travel to the Eastern front–to the Kameng Sector–to commemorate half a century of the 1962 war. So here it: Still pictures, a half hour documentary, several articles. Its…

50 Years ago, this week India and China clashed across the Himalayas. Within a month, the unprepared, non-accalimatised, ill-equipped Indian soldiers were thoroughly outmanouvred, outgunned and outnumbered by the rampaging Chinese who came down from the Himalayan passes almost to the plains of Assam. While over 3,000 soldiers were killed,…