Nope I think.its one of our most forgotten periods in military terms as we indians don't make our students study anything about 48,62,65,71or 99.many of my friends only know about kargil and doesn't even know bangladesh was part of pakistan or about 71
Layman's terms:
71 was our finest military hour so far, something to be extremely proud of (hopefully retaking PoK and Liberating Tibet would be a better Military achievement)
As in the words of The Great Lt.Gen. JFR Jacob
Also,
An interesting fact From the video
He himself typed the Instrument of surrender in his personal typewriter in few minutes and switched the UN ceasefire documents, talked Niazi into surrendering and gave him 30 minutes to come to an agreement
3000 IA soldiers were there with 26400 pork soldiers just in Dhaka
It's a Miracle he says, or the Pakistanis were foolish
They could have fought for atleast a couple more weeks he says
Most widely telecasted "public" surrender in the history of Warfare, and most number of POWs after the Second world war
Truly Republic of India's finest military hour
It's these things that fills my heart with pride
But on the other Hand
IPKF was a low point in our military history, Poorly trained troops in Guerrilla tactics may be attributed to it, Imagine the outcome of few battalions Of CoBRAs are deployed with sufficient air support, forerunners of Guerilla tactics on the subcontinent
It is a matter of disgrace that Youth is Unaware of 71 or IPKF
It should be a chapter in our history books so it may inspire younglings into the armed forces