摘要:Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen! It is indeed an honour to have been invited here to deliver the Ninth Major General Samir Sinha Memorial Lecture at USI. I have also had the privilege of serving with Major General Sinha; of course, he was a Major General and I was a Lieutenant Colonel at that time. I have served with him on two assignments. One, when he was the Commandant of the Indian Military Academy and I was a Battalion Commander there and thereafter during the disturbed, confusing times in Bangladesh. We had an organisation no one knew about, no one was supposed to know about; perhaps no one knows about it. We called it ‘Operation Jackpot’. It was kept in the shadows and we were often denied entrance into the confabulations of the Armed Forces when they were in uniform. I think we did a fairly good job and did contribute to our overall endeavours in 1971.