you have to appreciate a man, who was former defence minister of india and who puts his heart in his sleeve for standing up. standing up when it comes to the crux.

read his interview with karan thapar in ibnlive. he calls china for what it should be called.

let us be very clear. china is a great country. it has great culture and tradition perhaps one of the oldest and one of the greatest. its people and its businessmen are hard working. its people are warm.

but the communist chinese government that treats each one of its citizen a suspect, that inspite of its huge might behaves like moral pgymy, that sniffs each and every packet that passes through its network, that scares itself to death when it hears the words human rights, democracy and tibet - is all together a different animal.

let's read how respected editor vinod mehta puts it. and lets read the shocking statement of china's handyman in tibet's words, " "The Dalai Lama is a wolf in monk's robes, a devil with a human face but the heart of a beast."

it is time to india to stand up to chinese government and face it. lets face the truth that india's economic, military, cultural and other pillars stand one on one with china. let india not be treated as a poor fearful cousin by the chinese.

americans have bowed and crawled in front of chinese government. india should not allow to do it as it is much closer to china and should demand and get respect from chinese government.

i don't agree with several things that george fernandes might have done when he was in office. but let us applaud the man for standing up to chinese and tell a spade a spade.