UNDER THE SURFACE OF WAR
The Bangladesh War is India’s feelgood war just as the Second World War is the US’s. The liberation of Bangladesh and the trouncing of the Pakistan Army on both fronts comes with all the bells and whistles one wants as a patriotic, retrospectively war-thirsty follower of military history. Morally, the cause was unambiguous—we were the good guys and the Pakistanis were, without doubt, guilty of
