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#FreeTibet, #FreeAfghanistan, #Remembering1971
Aug 28, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
While everyone has an opinion and is congratulatory towards the Foreign Office and the Indian High Commission in Colombo, might one remind of 1967.
June 1967, Vijai Pillai and K Raghunath (later FS) were branded spies and expelled from Peking on trumped up charges
THREAD:
Being repatriated from Peking, they were attacked by Red Guards at the airport & other diplomatic staff were assaulted.
India's response was brutal at the same.
Chen Lu-Chih, First Secretary in New Delhi was striped of his diplomatic immunity, and immediate deportation
Aug 26, 2022 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
She sailed the waves, and splashed from Portsmouth to Bombay, Malta to Mongla
Let's take you down a memory lane, as a new #VIKRANT is born
A THREAD on old gal Vikrant (R 11) and her war service during #Remembering1971.
Romance of old sailors and their ships.
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The gallant sailor aviators who sailed on #Vikrant, flew from her decks, rested their butts in her belly, and nursed back to health, roared into the skies again.
The legend called a #Vikrant, as a new mightier Vikrant is born
