Announcement of Nirupama Rao's new book: - "The Fractured Himalaya: India China Tibet 1949-1962"

Announcement of Nirupama Rao's new book: - "The Fractured Himalaya: India China Tibet 1949-1962"

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Category : Miscellaneous Published on: September 27 2021

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·        Former Foreign Secretary of India 'Nirupama Menon Rao' has come out with her new book "The Fractured Himalaya: The Past Shadow the Present in India-China Relations".

·        The book traces how the origins of the dispute between India and China form part of a living history that shapes their broken relationship today.

·        The Fractured Himalaya is a rigorous examination of both the workings of diplomacy and its humanitarian and policy quotient; it looks at inflection points when the trajectory of the relationship could have been changed, but were missed.

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About the Himalayas

v The Himalayas or the Himalaya, is a mountain range in Asia that separates the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

v Height: 8,848 square meters

v The highest mountain peak in the Himalayas is known as Mount Everest (Tibetan: Chomolungma; Chinese: Komolungma Fang; Nepali: Sagarmatha).

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