General Sagat Singh: The Real Hero of the 1971 War

'A great General who had become a legend in his lifetime.''India will not see the likes of Sagat Singh again.'Prakash Bhandari salutes the memory of the military genius who captured Dacca in the......

'The boys were so fired up to fight the enemy'

'One of the bullets grazed General Sagat's hand and one injured Flying Officer Sidhu in the leg.''The helicopter was quickly flown back to Agartala and after landing they found that the aircraft......

'We helped the army tighten the noose around Dacca'

'As we finished the operations on 15th December, the word was already in that the Pakistanis were capitulating and some kind of peace and surrender was in the offing.' IMAGE: An Indian Air Force......

US wanted China to intervene against India in 1971 War

On December 10, Kissinger began to encourage the Chinese to take action against India: 'If the People's Republic were to consider the situation on the Indian subcontinent a threat to security, and......