Fifty years ago, India went through a tragic event which has remained a deep scar in the countrys psyche a border war with China. During the authors archival peregrinations on the Himalayan border, he goes into some relatively little known issues, such as the checkered history of Tawang the British India policy towards Tibet and even the possibility for India to militarily defend the Roof of the World. The author also looks into why the Government still keeps the Henderson Brooks Report under wraps and what were Maos motivations for teaching India a lesson. Throughout this series of essays, the thread remains the Tibet-India