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The Story of the Bangalore Torpedo Watching the Hollywood masterpiece ‘Saving Private Ryan’, I’m sure many who may not have known this story might have wondered what was that Tom Hanks went on [...]

The ‘Chindit’ Story Few ordeals an Indian soldier has to go through while on training or during regular service in units demand the kind of physical toughness a route march in ‘Chindit Order’ [...]

A Book Review The Battle of Dograi during the 1965 Indo-Pak War conjures up images of the Indian infantryman’s matchless grit under fire in the minds of our soldiers and for those of us, [...]

Tale of a Dogra Warrior On Sunday, the 18th of February 2018 a sizeable gathering assembled at a little-known village in J & K by the name of Nud on the Akhnoor-Chamb Road near a statue [...]

A battle less remembered WHEN YOU GO HOME TELL THEM OF US AND SAY FOR YOUR TOMORROW WE GAVE OUR TODAY Those famous words that form the epitaph at the Kohima War Cemetery tells the world what [...]

In a scenario where the Chinese activity in Tibet has become a matter of concern for us in India, it might be interesting to look back to a time early in the last century when India (read British [...]

The Story of Our Regimental Pehalwan Looking back to my regimental days more than four decades ago, nothing brings a smile to my face as does the still-not-faded picture of Jai Narain Bhoj, the [...]

Travails of the Build-Up to War War is eventful; the build-up isn’t far less either. My regiment had undergone what the army calls a ‘conversion’ during the six months prior to the war in 1971. [...]

Madras Central; Sunday 19 June, 1966, afternoon hours; a bunch of young men was assembled facing a small desk kept at one corner of the main passenger waiting area with a placard nearby boldly [...]

A SAGA OF COURAGE AND ENDURANCE THAT SAVED LADAKH August 1948; The Indian and Pakistani Armies had been locked in a bloody contest over Kashmir for almost a year. Skardu, the gateway to Ladakh, [...]