A book is creating ripples which states that Former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru had sought American assistance during Indo-China war of 1962. The book also mentions that Nehru wrote to the then US President John F Kennedy to provide India jet fighters to stem the Chinese tide of aggression during the 1962 Sino-India war. The book is written by former CIA official Bruce Riedel and is titled - JFK's Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA and the Sino-Indian War'.