{"id":7775,"date":"2022-11-11T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T05:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7775"},"modified":"2025-03-28T22:49:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T17:19:14","slug":"walong-mela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/walong-mela\/","title":{"rendered":"Walong Mela"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Walong Mela:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It aims to commemorate the unsurpassable bravery &amp; sacrifice of the Indian Army while defending the Indian Territory against the Chinese aggression of 1962.<\/li>\n<li>The aim of the Mela was to familiarise the public with the Indian Army &amp; to encourage a sense of belongingness &amp; togetherness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Battle of Walong:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Walong is one of India\u2019s easternmost villages in Arunachal Pradesh.<\/li>\n<li>In the 1962 India-China War, the Indian Army defended against China in all sectors except one \u2014 Arunachal Pradesh\u2019s Walong.<\/li>\n<li>The Battle of Walong was the only counterattack India could manage in the war.<\/li>\n<li>Indian Army held back the Chinese troops for 27 days, which forced the Chinese to deploy its reserve division from Tawang to Walong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=Army-Organises-Walong-Mela-in-continuation-of-Diamond-Jubilee-celebrations-of-Battle-of-Walong&amp;id=450692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walong Mela aims to commemorate sacrifice of Indian Army while defending Indian Territory against Chinese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7776,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}