The Takshashila Institution along with the Bangalore International Centre (BIC) hosted military historian Srinath Raghavan for a talk on his latest book, ‘1971 – The Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh’. The discussion took place in Bangalore on evening of Saturday, November 9 and was moderated by Narayan Ramachandran, Fellow at the Takshashila instution. About twenty five people attended the closed door session including students and alumni of the graduate certificate in public policy programme, members of BIC and interested individuals from Bangalore. The talk and the book sheds new light on that time in the subcontinent’s history.