fascismDuring one of numerous tense exchanges, legendary US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles asked Indian Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, "Are you for or against America?"Nehru replied: "Yes".It is likely an apocryphal story from another time the 1950s and in the midst of the Cold War but it carries a lesson for today
Retired Indian diplomat Chandrashekhar Dasgupta’s recollection of the events of 1971, centring on the Bangladesh Liberation War as captured in his recently published book, India and the Bangladesh Liberation War:
How two dimensions of India’s diplomacy in the framework of the 1971 India-Pakistan war helped in removing the consideration of the 'situation in the India/Pakistan subcontinent' from the UNSC’s agenda till today.
When the then PM Indira Gandhi announced in the Lok Sabha on December 16, 1971, that Pakistan’s military had surrendered unconditionally to the Indian Army in Bangladesh, her statement had been