The book also takes a close look at the events of 1971, which saw the birth of Bangladesh. Here, Raman credits the R&AW—and its founder Rameshwar Nath Kao—and the Intelligence Bureau with helping create a situation where the people of East Pakistan achieved independence from Pakistan.
Richard Nixon and Mao realised the inevitability of Pakistan losing its “eastern wing” given the worldwide revulsion over the brutalities of the Pakistan Army in East Pakistan. But “they were determined to thwart any designs of Indira Gandhi to break up West Pakistan,” the book says.
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