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After a thousand years, India won a strategic victory in 1971, dismembering Pakistan and creating a new nation, Bangladesh. It was a famous victory achieved through people’s power. Not just the soldiers but the politicians, administrators, paramilitary forces, police, intelligence agencies, railways and most of all the common people all contributed. There was a tremendous hunger for victory, a great thirst for just one triumph to wipe out forever the record of a series of defeats at the hands of Central Asian and European invaders over the centuries. Achieving independence in 1947, we did well in defending the Kashmir Valley...
