This refers to the article, “The Famous Five that broke India's back” (April 24) by Claude Arpi. The Chinese deceit, instead of being tackled, was accepted simplistically by Jawaharlal Nehru under the cloak of high idealism. The so-called visionary leader was short-sighted while Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was a true visionary, as evidenced by his (Sardar Patel's) letter, before his death in 1950, to Nehru. Besides, in 1947, Sri Aurobindo had warned Nehru of the ‘Yellow’ peril.
China's bogus claims on territories must be exposed internationally. In fact, the earlier inward-looking Chinese built the Great Wall to protect themselves from external aggression. So, it is in the fitness of things that China should confine itself to the east of the great wall, leaving others, including the Tibetans, to look after themselves.
Finally, after a lapse of 50 years, it is necessary to declassify the Henderson Brooks report to identify who committed the mistakes and where.