HINDI-CHINI NOT BHAI BHAI

WRITTEN BY: ANURAG SAHOO

It is said in this selfish world even brothers can be sworn enemies. The clash of powers often unleashes mass destruction of economies and loss of life and property. Today, in the 21st century, the time is being dubbed as the ASIAN RISING. Among the ASIAN giants who are poised to make the great leap to the SUPERPOWER TAG are TIGERS and DRAGON that are INDIA and PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA respectively. But lately, the relations between these two great powers have not been praiseworthy or progressive.


The SINO-INDO relations are very old and it dated to the days when FA-HIEN and HUEN TSANG came to INDIA to visit NALANDA UNIVERSITY. The Indians and the Chinese traded goods and the mode for the economic activities were by a route named as SILK ROAD or SILK ROUTE. Chinese immigrants also made KOLKATA their home as it is the only Indian city to have CHINATOWN.

MAO-ZEDONG and JAWAHARLAL NEHRU coined the statement that HINDI CHINI BHAI BHAI. But in 1962, the SINO-INDIA war spoke of a different scenario. The land dispute over TIBET and Tibetan BUDDHIST GURU DALAI LAMA seeking political asylum in HIMACHAL PRADESH were the major reasons for this war which came to an end after a UNILATERAL CEASEFIRE from China. Furthermore, the relations between these two country strained because of the SINO-PAK relation improvement and SINO-SOVIET relation deterioration.

On July 2006, INDO-CHINA RELATIONS got a major boost with the re-opening of the SILK ROAD with the new name NATHU-LA PASS. Today, once again hostilities between these two nations have resurfaced as China is trying to claim that ARUNACHAL PRADESH is their territory. Fuel was added to the fire with the visit of DALAI LAMA to the controversial TAWANG district.

Also the INDO-US 123 NUCLEAR COOPERATION AGREEMENT have alarmed CHINA which has believed to enter with a similar agreement with PAKISTAN- INDIA’S TRADITIONAL RIVALS.

But I do hope that the differences between these two countries should be resolved to the earliest as they are the two great hopes of ASIA who will light the reckon light to the world economically. As they say, HINDI-CHINI should be BHAI BHAI if economic development should be done continually.