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The Tale of a Warrior Queen Abbakka, who? Most Indians would be at a loss even to recognize the name, let alone know the significance it carries. Our Ghazni-and-Ghori obsessed historians for whom [...]

THE HUMAN STORY OF TANKS AT WAR Book Review Admittedly it is an old book, first published in UK in 2008; but having had the opportunity to read it only recently when a friend who is an armour [...]

On vacation to Kerala recently, I happen to accompany my wife on one of her innumerable visits to temples, a favourite jaunt of hers whenever on vacation. The shrine we visited this time was in [...]

The Story of India’s First George Cross Awardee Monte Cassino, the historic, hilltop monastery a hundred miles south of Rome, founded in AD 529 by Benedict of Nursia, dominates the nearby town of [...]

I remember listening to a sabre-rattling statement by a senior political leader of ours in the aftermath of the Pokharan II nuclear tests during 1998, warning Pakistan that they better be [...]

Book Review The story of the Indian Army in the First World War has never been told fully that to the world at large the ‘Great War’ has always remained a white man’s epic, whether it’s the [...]

India is convulsing in the throes of yet another emotional upheaval after the bloody Thursday that saw 40-plus CRPF jawans massacred in a suicide bombing. Traditional rhetoric has taken [...]

A couple of years back when an article of mine on our heroes of the Second World War was published in this newspaper, one of the feedbacks lambasted me for ‘singing praises’ of people who were [...]

[An overview of the present Northeast scenario] Considering the animosity the AFSPA has generated among the people of Northeast India, it serves no one’s interest to continue with the statute in [...]

The Kashmir insurgency having taken centre-stage for many years now, the insurgencies of the North-East no more occupy significant spaces of newsworthiness. Nevertheless, they are not dead as [...]