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Claude Arpi | Flashback: Biju role, U-2 Flights, Charbatia & Tibet

Claude Arpi | Flashback: Biju role, U-2 Flights, Charbatia & Tibet

first heard about Charbatia, Biju Patnaik’s baby, when I studied the participation of the Tibetan Special Frontier Force...

19 Jun 2026 12:53 AM IST

Codenamed Operation X, the untold story of Indias covert naval war in East Pakistan in 1971was put together in a book with the same title by Captain M.N.R. Samant, one of INs hardcore professionals and Sandeep Unnithan, the journalist son of a naval officer, and it turned out to read like an unputdownable thriller.

Book Review | Navy's 1971 covert exploits make for breathless reading

Conceived by a few hard core professional IN officers in 1971, Operation X was innovatively conceived and meticulously...

14 March 2021 4:46 AM IST