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From Karachi To Bay of Bengal, How the Indian Navy Played a Stellar Role in the 1971 War
It was a saga of strategic institutional thinking, great personal valour and sacrifice, like that of Captain M.N. Mulla.
INS Vikrant. Photo: Arun Prakash/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0
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The year 1971 was marked with several âbig victoriesâ â in politics, cricket and in war â all of which had long term implications for India. The national mood was buoyant, even if the country continued to struggle with endemic problems.
Fifty years later, we look back at those times and evoke some of that mood. In a series of articles, leading writers recall and analyse key events and processes that left their mark on a young, struggling but hopeful nation.Â