It seems to me that Bhutto and Aziz Ahmed tried in a carefully calibrated manner to put the Indian team on the defensive. Strange as this may sound, the Indian team did not seem very comfortable with the fact of having won the war. I have tried to understand the psychology behind this attitude without success.
Perhaps it was Indira Gandhi’s view mainly that it would be unbecoming for us as victors to behave victoriously while hosting the summit, that infected our attitude or perhaps our collective historical experience makes us feel more at home with set backs.
– P.N.Dhar in “ Indira Gandhi: Emergency and Indian Democracy”