My Life With Kotnis

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My Life with Kotnis is a befitting tribute to Dr. D. S. Kotnis on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan. The book takes us back into history when both the people of India and China rendered support and sympathy to each other in their common struggle against imperialism and oppression. Apart from recollecting her first encounter with Kotnis, her marriage, the birth of their child and later the sad demise of Kotnis and her son, Guo Qinglan further tells us about a simple nationalist turning into a staunch crusader against imperialism, an internationalist and a great friend of the Chinese people. The book is also befittingtribute to the people of India and China in the Year of India-China Friendship. It is our hope that in the new international scenario when both India and China are moving towards a strategic cooperative partnership, these two nations would resurrect their centuries old sentiments with a new zeal, exploit their potential and embark on the road of economic cooperation, development, peace and good friendly relations.

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Guo Qinglan, wife of Dr. Kotnis, a great soldier of internationalism, is born in Fenxiang City of Shanxi Province in China. She joined the Eighth Route Army in May 1939 and subsequently the Communist Party of China in 1942. Throughout her life, the author has been engaged in the health and sanitation programs in the Army as well as outside. The author tied her nuptial knot with Dr. Kotnis, one of the doctor in India's Medical Mission to China on November 25, 1941 and was blessed with a son on August 23, 1942. Mr. Nie Rongzhen, Commanding Officer of the Shanxi-Qahar-Hebei Military Region named the baby boy as Yinhua [literary India and China] with an implied symbolism that China and India five times and has made significant contributions towards strengthening Sino-Indian friendship. She has been conferred the honor of "Peoples' Ambassador" on diplomatic front. Xu Baojun is born in Changshu, Jiagsu Province in 1993. He is joined the army in 1950 and soonafter the Communist Party of China. Mu Xu is a senior political teacher and member of various organisations and societies such as China's Education and Art Society, Dalian City Writers Association, China's Reportage Literature Society, and one of the 10 most bibliographies of Dalin City. Mr. Xu is an ardent lover of literature and has been associated with amateur literary writings for a long time. Since 10 years of his retirement, he has published over 170 literary articles in various newspapers and journals across China. He is author of The Story of Guan Xiangying, a 200,000 character long documentary literature work. Dr. B.R. Deepak is a working as an Associate Professor of Chinese at the Centre of Chinese and Southeast Asian Students, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He is recipient of many scholarships and award including the prestigious Nehru Fellowship and India-China Cultural Exchange fellowship for his doctoral and advanced studies in the Chinese Academy of Social Science and Peking University, Beijing, respectively. Dr. Deepak has received his MBA from the Lancaster University Management School, UK, and Ph.D. in Chinese history and language from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. He is the author of India and China 1904-2004 : A Century of Peace and Conflict (2005), Chinese-Hindi Dictionary (2003), India-China Relations in first half of the Twentieth Century (2001) and Chinese Literature with Selected Literary Texts) (2001), as well as scores of research papers on China and India-China relations. The author has been a guest lecture in the Germany and has taught Chinese language, literature and civilisation in the University of Edinburgh, the United Kingdom.