In fact, Li’s grandiose plan has a marvellous physics element to it: his plan has ensured that no laws of physics are violated during the proposed diversion of the Brahmaputra. Here, again, we get a glimpse of how scientific-minded the Chinese are when it comes to hydro-ambitions. Since extremely tall mountains and the majestic Brahmaputra Canyon come as impediments to tapping the Great Bend water reserves, Li proposed an altertive: to shift the diversion point from the Great Bend upstream, towards west, to the 3,588 metre-high Shoumatan site near the famous eighth-century Tantric meditation cave of Tibetan Buddhist Guru Rinpoche. Therefore, as Chellaney has exposed in his book in question, “Li’s plan seeks to reduce the need to pump water uphill, thereby ensuring that the construction of the 1,239-kilometre route (from the Brahmaputra in Tibet) to the Yellow River (in the majority Han heartland) does not openly defy the laws of physics.” This is perhaps hydrophysics at its best. As a half-done PhD student of Fluid Dymics, this writer wonders whether a smart blend of Chinese pure hydroengineers would team up with the Beijing University fluid dymics experts ilk to work out more elegant plans to play with the waters of what they call their Tsangpo – our own lifeline the Brahmaputra – to feed their dry northern plains and to eventually dry us up in the absence of a pro-active, effective and pragmatic New Delhi response.