संवाद # 124: How India's secret war broke Pakistan & liberated Bangladesh | Ushinor Majumdar

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Ushinor Majumdar is an award-winning investigative reporter and author. He has worked for publications such as Outlook, Tehelka, Confluence Media and Hindustan Times. As a freelancer, his reports have appeared in the Mumbai Mirror, OCCRP and the Caravan, and he has also consulted with the BBC.

His latest book 'India’s Secret War: BSF and Nine Months to the Birth of Bangladesh' is out. Order your copy here: https://www.amazon.in/India%C3%A2%E2%...

0:00 Promo
2:19 Episode starts - Story of BSF’s First War
5:40 NRC & cut off date of 26th March 1971
6:53 Consequences of democracy
9:42 Bhasha Andolan against Urdu
11:14 Why Nehru wasn’t interested in Bangladesh
13:21 Pakistan was using commercial flights to send soldiers to Bangladesh
15:39 Pak army abused women with impunity
20:09 Role of ‘Professor Ali’
27:08 BSF’s Secret Unit that destroyed strategic bridges and roads
31:31 Rustamji - Tha Man who caught Gabbar Singh
33:35 Institutional strength of Indian Army
36:10 When Pak diplomatic mission was converted
41:11 Role of some Bureaucrats shouldn’t be forgotten
42:10 Whole India contributed including people
44:42 How BSF kept track of Mukti Bahini fighters
46:17 When BSF faced revolt from Bangladeshis
48:41 BSF made its own rockets
52:04 Role of radio in Bangladesh liberation
58:41 India had a spy in Yahya Khan’s office?
1:00:24 How Ashwini Kumar foiled Pak’s Operation Changez Khan
1:06:36 When BSF soldiers almost shot each other dead