ABSTRACT
The 50th anniversary of the 1962 border war with China occasioned in Indian media much historical recall and hand-wringing alongside attempts also at analysis of the reasons for the defeat and the current state of affairs. Given that English is the preferred language of its strategic community, this chapter will examine a selection of writings in English-language newspapers covering mostly the period from October to December 2012 since these were the months that attention to the anniversary of the war was the greatest and given that this is also the span the conflict itself took place 50 years earlier.
