How Indira lit up & sniffed out a friend

May 18, 2015 13:01

Few people now remember that when India fought a difficult diplomatic battle with its back to the wall for the creation of Bangladesh four decades ago, it had one unwavering ally: Mongolia.In 1972, when Indira Gandhi instructed India's permanent mission in New York to move a resolution in the UN General Assembly for recognising the new nation that had seceded from Pakistan and drum up support, it could persuade no more than two countries to co-sponsor that resolution. One of those two co-sponsors was Mongolia; the other was Bhutan. Read more

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