A British missionary, George Patterson, said that the evidence that India used to assert their authority over Aksai Chin was of poor quality, and included some "dubious" sources. Doesn't this mean that India's claim is not credible?

The British had used as many as 11 lines in the region when they were India"s colonial masters, according to the political situation. There was no officially recognized line to separate the two countries, hence each country had its own line for their territorial claims.

But getting to know people through the internet is very dangerous. There has been many cases of girls chatting up with strangers online, meets them afterwards and get sexually abused, cheated of their money or being killed. Because of this, some people are cautious and start to be less sociable individuals. This proves that the land of social media is full of peril and might make one less social than one already is.

Currently, there are many people who overuse Facebook, some so engrossed to the extent that they kill people just because the other individual unfriended them on Facebook. So tell me, with so many people using Facebook, isn't it unhealthy for some people's minds? The human body needs physical contact with others instead of communicating virtually, if a user gets so addicted that he doesn't make physical contact at all, isn't harmful for his mind?

I agree that social media has made us less social. The use of social media has distracted us from the beauty of life, like outdoor activities and hanging out with your friends. In contrast, with the use of social media, we just get cooped up at home, stuck in front of a computer or phone. For example, today the mobile phone is almost a necessity, which is inseparable from the user. In the past, to communicate with others, we have to meet face-to-face, but now with the use of social media, we can just take out our phones and text the person. By doing this, the use of mobile phones has made us really less sociable, because of all the time we spend cooped up at home and not going out to meet up with friends.

SELLING opium is not bad for the people's health. CONSUMING is.

Running a country is never easy. It is a very huge responsibility and whenever something about corruption pops up in the country, the Prime Minister/President is the person who takes the most flak. If you think that running a country is that easy, there wouldn't be any stories of politicians like Gandhi going through hardship just to get self-independence.

I agree. The support of the people shows how much the people appreciated him for what he had done.

He needed to raise money to further develop Singapore. Raffles wanted to convince the East India Company that Singapore needed little money and gave back a lot of money back. So he gave Farquhar the near impossible task of running a country with a lack of funds. Farquhar had to resort to selling opium and gambling so he had enough money to run Singapore. If he had not done that, all of Raffles' hard work would have gone to waste.

I agree with this point. Raffles did not help William Farquhar for this matter and many others.