Stories hidden 'Between The Lines'

BETWEEN THE LINES : KULDIP NAYAR

kukdip Nayar ,veteran journalist From India, who have witnessed the every subtle event since independance.
'Between the Lines' , name itself suggests the incidents, anecdots which were coverted in the folds of time are revealed by the author.

There are specially two chapters from the book which are congizable in my opinion.
First is about the Bilingualism (a famous debate about the Hindi whether it should be a 'National'? Language or Not). In this chapter ,author specially reports about the happenings took place in the meetings of parliamentary committee, their conclusions ,Language Bill, pressure from north indians for imposer of Hindi as principal language all over the Nation.
If we are able to relate this events with current situation we will understand that the Hindi Was never our National language.

Second chapter is about the Notorious and humiliating defeat of our nation in Indo- Sino war of 1962. In this Chapter author has used his personal Diary's notes as a references to narrate the incidents from 7 September 1962 ( when china first time crossed the MacMohan Line) to 4 May 1963.
information mentioned through notes is first hand information and personal prejuidices are strictly avoided by author.
how Pandit Nehru was totally failed to understand the china's strategy, How our Intelligence failed to collect the data about the mustering of chinese army near border.( though CIA had informed new delhi about the approximate number of troops deployed by Chinese On Indian Border)
Other noteworthy facet of this chapter is author has mentioned the role of NAM , USA ,Uk, USSR, UAR, Pakistan, Cyleone,Burma, Nepal in post war diplomacy.
Nehru wrote to everyone personally asking for the help against china's intrusion in indian territory but literally no one was  stand ( Except president of  Egypt) with us agianst China.
Three point proposal by Cho en lai , Colombo conference by NAM countries to resolve this issue

Last part of this book contains the Copy of famous letter written by  Mr. Vallabh bhai Patel to Jawaharlal Nehru in 1950, after the china's encroachment over Tibet.
In this letter patel had clearly exhibited his worries about the Incurion of China , Importance of Tibet as Buffer State and future threats from china.