And similarly how the 65 experience made us invent new tactics and hunt down the Ghazi in 71, this too will be improvised. There sis going to be no conventional military parity between India and Pakistan. Ever. It is the nukes and the fact that India has more to loose in a war (a north-korea-south korea scenario) that saves Pakistan's skin.
BTW your claims about bottling up Vikrant itself is dubious at best,
Pakistan And Its Three Wars - 1
Two naval myths, too, got generated at that time. That the whole of the Indian Navy was bottled up in harbour because of the presence of a single Pakistani submarine at sea. And, the Indian Naval expansion during the seventies and eighties was a reaction to the Pakistan Navy's bombardment of Dwarka. The real facts, however, were that almost seventy five percent of the Indian Navy was caught under maintenance in harbour after an intensive three months anti-submarine work up with a British submarine in the Bay of Bengal.
And the author is no ordinary tom,dick or harry but Vice Adm (Retd) Iqbal F Quadir