The Japanese Carried Out Airstrikes In India In 1942 To Create Panic: Author Mukund Padmanabhan

Mukund Padmanabhan, veteran journalist and former Editor of a leading English national daily, in a discussion with ABP LIVE's Nayanima Basu on his new book - 'The Great Flap Of 1942: How The Raj Panicked Over A Japanese Non-invasion' said that the airstrikes carried out by Japan in 1942, five years before India gained independence, was to create panic and fear across British India, but they had no plans at all to invade the country even as the episode led to mass exodus