This edition of the India Foundation Podcast features a conversation between Maj Gen Dhruv Katoch, SM, VSM, Director, India Foundation and Maj Gen G D Bakshi, SM, VSM, Author and Columnist. The podcast is a special tribute to Netaji on the occasion of his 125th birth anniversary.
General KM Cariappa became the first Indian Chief of the Indian Army on 15 January 1949 and to mark this momentous occasion, 15 January is celebrated every year as Army Day.
From the early part of the morning of 16 December, the atmosphere all across the war zone in East Pakistan was electric, in anticipation of the surrender of the Pakistani Armed Forces.
The Indian Armed Forces and the Mukti Bahini brought the war to a swift end in under two weeks, culminating in the surrender of the Pakistan Army and heralding the birth of a new nation.