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D. Birla (L) backer & benefactor to Hindu ldr. Mohandas Gandhi, posing next to bust of his father, the founder of the Birla firm, at his palacial home 1946https://revisitingindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/g_a8.pngg_a8https://revisitingindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/743516.jpg7435162017-08-31T06:20:21+00:00monthlyhttps://revisitingindia.com/2017/08/24/4-patel-vs-congress-socialist-party-the-insurgency/https://revisitingindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/6577db69496bc8db3a452d87589a3a31.jpgJawaharlal NehruJawaharlal Nehru the then President of the Indian National Congress on his arrival at the Madras Central Railway Station in Oct.1936. 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Women were raped, then they were killed anywayshttps://revisitingindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/20030425000506202.jpg20030425000506202Yahya Khan: The man responsible for the genocidehttps://revisitingindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/west-pakistan-on-a-map.gifWest-Pakistan-on-a-mapThe two wings of a broken nation2016-05-24T10:12:55+00:00monthlyhttps://revisitingindia.com/2014/04/17/1971-india-pakistan-war-loyalty/https://revisitingindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/nixon1.gifnixon1It wasn't just about the Cold War. For Nixon, Indians were “a slippery, treacherous people”. Indira Gandhi was a “bitch” while Yahya Khan was an “honorable” man. It was not uncommon for paranoid Nixon to carry such un-nuanced prejudices. That they should end up condemning hundreds of thousands of Bengalis to their deaths was just a misfortune of history.https://revisitingindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ff_nuclearwar_kissinger.jpgff_nuclearwar_kissingerRichard Nixon (left) and Henry Kissinger, two most controversial figures of the 1970shttps://revisitingindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/c488963b5bacd1b263edb3698bdc7d.jpgC488963B5BACD1B263EDB3698BDC7Dhttps://revisitingindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1970-we-will-not-attack.jpg1970-We-Will-Not-Attack"If people don't attack us, we will not attack; if people attack us, we will surely counter-attack"- Chinese anti-Soviet propaganda poster, 1970https://revisitingindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/57359640_mascarenhas_genocide464.jpg_57359640_mascarenhas_genocide4642015-09-16T18:19:02+00:00monthlyhttps://revisitingindia.com/2014/02/03/india-and-the-korean-war-damned-are-the-peacemakers/https://revisitingindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/korean32.gifkorean32Indian Custodial Force being airlifted out of Dum Dumhttps://revisitingindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1512_para_field_ambula.jpg1512_Para_Field_AmbulaIndian 60th Parachute Field Medical Unit was sent to help in the warhttps://revisitingindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/mkslyaacije_small.jpgMao and Nehru"China has many people. 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