The 1962 war was fought by soldiers and lost by politicians and Generals. Nehru’s China policy is once again being exhumed from the compost pit of history as India and China stand on the brink of war. He was saved by, of all people, a Chinese military nurse who had studied nursing in Allahabad-Jawaharlal Nehru’s birthplace. In 1962, Subedar Dashrath Singh was captured by the Chinese after receiving an entire AK-47 magazine in his stomach. War is a theatre of tragic irony and unforeseen contradictions.
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