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Topic: 1971

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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Theaterisation reform is stuck on ranks and roles — India’s military needs clarity

Sudhir Pillai -
On paper, the idea of theaterisation is elegant. In practice, it is paralysed by ambiguities of rank and command.

Aryan Khan has turned his camera on us. ‘I won’t be your victim again,’ he is saying

‘I am Assam,’ Zubeen Garg had said. He was the soundtrack to our lives

Economy

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

Sampurna Panigrahi -
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

Defence

China navy achieves breakthrough with new fighter jet launch system. What are electromagnetic catapults

Saksham Thakur -
China’s most advanced aircraft carrier—Fujian—uses electromagnetic catapults, a core component of future aircraft carriers.

National Interest

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Shekhar Gupta -
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.

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