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What motivates a soldier to plunge headlong into extreme danger, staking his very life for the sake of regimental pride and honour, while defending the nation?  He is buoyed by the knowledge [...]

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 [...]

[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 [...]