‘Khushamat & Sewa’, The Art Of Appeasement In Uniform (Part-1)

[An anecdote from IAF] Wg Cdr Unni Kartha (Retd) Just after the 71 war, when I was a 21 yr old pilot cum officer, a ‘Co-Jo’ in Daks, still too young to scratch a notch on my front [...]

Colours of Glory Foundation lost its intellectual icon with the passing away of Mr. S Muthiah, its venerable elder Trustee, on 20 April 2019. He refused being called a historian, but knew more [...]

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 [...]

Valentines Day 14 Feb.2019 turned out to be a very sad day for India when an unthinking stripling of a lad drove his explosives-laden SUV into a convoy of CRPF, bringing death to 44 young jawans [...]

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 [...]

[Reproduced from the author’s book “Fearless Falcon”] On 18 October 2012, Ekkas arrived in Dhaka. The first thing Balamdini asked me if they would be able to visit Gangasagar for the [...]

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 [...]

Colours of Glory Victory Day Marathon 2018 The early hours, even before dawn and sunrise , of Sunday, 16 December 2018 saw the picturesque stretch of road from Elliot’s Beach to Leela Palace [...]

[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 [...]