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Hours before the start of the historic 1971 West Indies tour, Indian team had no kit to play

Boria Majumdar -
In ‘1971: The Beginning of India’s Cricketing Greatness’, Boria Majumdar and Gautam Bhattacharya write about the twin tours that made the Indian team a force to reckon with.

Operation Eagle — The 1971 mission by RAW and Tibetan SFF that has no official record

Anusha Nandakumar -
In ‘The War That Made R&AW’, Anusha Nandakumar and Sandeep Saket write that with the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, spymaster R.N. Kao put India’s RAW on the world intelligence map.

1971 to 2021 – We fought together, now Bangladesh Army marches with us on Republic Day

Maj Gen Yash Mor (retd) -
India and Bangladesh are celebrating 50 years of the 1971 Liberation War — one of the finest victories in modern military history.

Here’s the big exposé about India and Israel funding Pakistanis since 1947

Naila Inayat -
Designating opponents as the best friend of India and Israel works like a charm in Pakistan. These publicly available photographs mean something else in Pakistani universe.

Pakistan Army emotionally blackmails its population with its own idea of India

Amarjit Singh -
In Pakistan, the prosperity of the army is paramount and the people are working to secure its future.

Dalit-Muslim unity is an opposition charade. CAA and Ram Mandir trust blow the lie

Guru Prakash Paswan -
Established Dalit leadership is not opposing the CAA, and misadventures of Chandrashekhar Azad will have little implications on the sentiments of Dalits.

As a young captain in 1971 Bangladesh war, I gave Pakistan’s Lt-Gen the letter to surrender

Lt Gen Nirbhay Sharma (Retd) -
My battalion, 2 PARA, was the first of the many troops to enter ‘Dacca’ after Pakistan’s defeat.

A general who wasn’t the ‘chosen one’, but became the man of the hour in 1965

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
Major General H.S. Kler earned the reputation of being a brilliant professional who was outspoken to a fault.

Dhaka & Pakistan’s psychological defeat: How Indian military commanders won 1971

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
Before 1971, our political and military leadership was inexperienced in waging a war at this scale to achieve absolute victory.

How I captured and saved India’s first prisoner of war in 1971

Lt Gen H S Panag (retd) -
A man who would go on to become chief of Pakistan Air Force was India’s first prisoner of war in 1971
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Nobel committee, note how Trump allowed Munir to make nuclear threat against India from US soil

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Economy

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Krishan Murari -
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Defence

‘An expression of outrage’: Operation Sindoor front and centre in Modi’s Independence Day address

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National Interest

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Shekhar Gupta -
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.

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