Patriot Indian

Introduction Operation X was a highly covert naval mission carried out just before the India-Pakistan War of 1971, the government of India burnt all the papers and files belonging to this operation, but if we are reading this article today, all its credits go to Capt. Mohan Narayan Rao Samant, MVC. He wrote a book named 'Operation X'  with the help of a journalist Sandeep Unnithan which is based on his memoir of the happenings in 1971, otherwise, nobody, even in Indian Navy can prove the happening of the said operation. Image 1: From left to right; Book Cover, Capt. MNR Samant, Sandeep Unnithan The Partition On the midnight of 14-15 August 1947, Pakistan was separated out of India accompanied by the largest migration o f 1 crore people  in human history followed by the communal riots leading to ...

'Bravery and Courage recognize neither victory nor defeat' -   Maj. Gen. Ian Cardozo(Retd.) It has been said that wars are caused by politicians and fought by soldiers. The Sino-Indian war of 1962 was one such war where politicians failed the country in its hours of crisis. The forceful occupation of peace-loving Tibet in 1950 by the 'expansionist' country which was considered as a buffer zone between India and China for India's strategic defence, but now, it was gone, and what we got was a wide-open front with China. Still ignoring the vicious intentions of the neighbouring country, the then government was making humiliating excuses for her failure in stopping China to absorb that buffer. This attitude itself shows that the then Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru had a casual approach towards China and always had a wishful thought that China will never attack India. In addition, the political leadership denied the defe...