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Why do they fail to make the cut? “Usne Kaha Tha” – She had asked – was a Hindi movie produced by Bimal Roy in 1960. A black and white film, directed by Moni Bhattacharjee, it was based on a [...]

You couldn’t escape Exercise Great Escape if you had been through anyone of the Indian Army’s officer training institutions, be it NDA, IMA or OTA. This is one unique exercise when the cadets get [...]

Indians love symbolism, especially those in power. That has been their hallmark, right through the last millennium and the trend continues to date. Strangely, for inheritors of some of the [...]

The other day, I witnessed an event that filled me with immense joy and inspired me to write this. The occasion was a quiz on India’s military history that we, Colours of Glory Foundation, held [...]

Rail travellers in India, these days, do not really see, hear, or smell the vast land of ours; unless you travel by non-AC Sleeper Class or the General Compartment, the discomforts and crowding [...]

Escorting is a boring and thankless activity. To feel how insanely boring it is, you had to have escorted a convoy on one of the mountain roads of Mizoram, way back in nineteen sixties and [...]

An indomitable patriot and his relentless saga for India’s freedom The oldest school in Thiruananthapuram (earlier Trivandrum), the capital city of Kerala, is one of its premier educational [...]

The Revolutionary who turned Assassin Robert William d’Escourt Ashe, of Anglo-Irish lineage, was a civil service officer of India’s colonial regime, serving as the collector of Tirunelveli, the [...]

The Sanyasi who led an iconic Tribal Uprising Born in the village of Pandrangi in Bhimavaram Taluk of the present-day West Godavari District of Andhra Pradesh in 1897, Alluri Sitarama Raju turned [...]

The Rebel who Championed a Peasant Revolt that jolted the British Agrarian reforms are problematic universally and when a traditional system is tampered with, it is bound to cause friction. This [...]