The year 2012 is not 1962. That is a fact. Subtract the former from the latter and you get a neat 50 years that mark the anniversary of a watershed event in Indian history - the Sino-Indian war that resulted in a humiliating defeat for India. The defeat brought the Nehru era to a sad end and the years that followed saw the turbulent transition to the Indira Gandhi era, following yet another war, this time with Pakistan in 1965.

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