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Claude Arpi

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2024 May Witness More Natural Disasters
Rediff.com1 Jan 2024

'The Weather Channel argues that India faces the gravest challenge: Climate...

China Will Never Get Ladakh!
Rediff.com31 Oct 2023

'It is flabbergasting to think that this heavenly region has, for decades, been coveted...

The Holy Waterfalls and the Great Guru
Rediff.com31 Aug 2023

It is on the exact spot where the Guru is said to have created 108 waterfalls, that the...

Should China's Arunachal Name Changes Worry India?
Rediff.com5 Apr 2023

How does blatantly claiming Indian territory help to maintain 'peace in border...

The Soldier Awarded The First Param Vir Chakra
Rediff.com31 Jan 2023

Major Somnath Sharma was awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously for his bravery in...

The Soldier Awarded The First Param Vir Chakra
Rediff.com31 Jan 2023

Major Somnath Sharma was awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously for his bravery in...

The Heroes Who Saved Ladakh For India
Rediff.com18 Nov 2022

Visiting the Rezang La Memorial, one has a feeling of super-humans defending the Indian...

The Unsung Heroes of the 1962 War
Rediff.com20 Oct 2022

The Chinese admitted that they had suffered the maximum casualties fighting in the...

Has India Changed Its Tibet Policy?
Rediff.com18 May 2022

One priority for Delhi (for the new foreign secretary in particular) is to have an...

Shudder! Olympics with Chinese Characteristics
Rediff.com3 Feb 2022

'The Olympic Spirit has been thrown to the wind in Xi Jinping's China.' 'The...

US wanted China to intervene against India in 1971 War
Rediff.com16 Dec 2021

On December 10, Kissinger began to encourage the Chinese to take action against India:...

'We are well prepared for any eventualities'
Rediff.com18 Nov 2021

'Guarding the borders in extreme weather conditions is not easy and most people don't...

'Indianness of Arunachal is not to be proven to anyone'
Rediff.com18 Nov 2021

'Our love for our great nation -- Bharat is second to none and our patriotism towards...

Xi Jinping and Pomegranate Seeds
Rediff.com8 Sep 2021

Why is China's supreme leader promoting Han Chauvinism so aggressively, asks Claude Arpi.

Why did Xi meet PLA generals?
Rediff.com26 Jul 2021

Important for India was Xi's meeting with representatives of PLA officers and soldiers...

Mr Xi, what have you gained in Ladakh?
Rediff.com15 Jun 2021

'Why did your generals try to grab a few square kilometres of Indian territory in...

Is Xi Scared of Tiananmen 1989?
Rediff.com4 Jun 2021

Why omit the Tiananmen massacre from the history of China's Communist party, asks...

The Forgotten Hero of the Indian Air Force
Rediff.com19 May 2021

Did Vinod Sehgal die in Tsangdgar or was he taken PoW to Tibet or China? Why has the...

Can Dharamsala stop PLA's Tibetan gambit?
Rediff.com8 May 2021

The first priority for the new Tibetan administration in Dharamsala should be to look...

Why is China more and more nervous?
Rediff.com14 Apr 2021

The Tibetan nation still lives under the yoke of the Chinese Communist Party, and...