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Journals of An Itinerant Army Officer The reading eye craves something original. Something written that taps the tinfoil of memory and things forgotten through the eye. A book or article to [...]

Journals of an Itinerant Army Officer Ghosts have distinct personalities and favour to move by lunar cycles. I have yet to hear of a ghost who simply rang the doorbell and entered through the [...]

The sun shone over the Arakan hills. The hills looked harmless and newly greened after the monsoons. The latest new race of yellow-faced, buck-toothed men which had come to conquer India was [...]

I was going out into the desert with my own group of scorpions; my first independent reconnaissance. We had two jonga-s and one jeep. Canvas water bags (chaugals) hung around our four wheel-drive [...]

Episode – 13 [This is the thirteenth episode of a blog series we are featuring on the famous battle of Chambb of the 1971 War, as narrated by veterans of the 5th Battalion, the Sikh Regiment, one [...]

Episode – 12 [This is the twelfth episode of a blog series we are featuring on the famous battle of Chambb of the 1971 War, as narrated by veterans of the 5th Battalion, the Sikh Regiment, one of [...]

Episode – 11 [This is the eleventh episode of a blog series we are featuring on the famous battle of Chambb of the 1971 War, as narrated by veterans of the 5th Battalion, the Sikh Regiment, one [...]

Lt Col Ashok Ahlawat Episode – 10 [This is the tenth episode of a blog series we are featuring on the famous battle of Chambb of the 1971 War, as narrated by veterans of the 5th Battalion, the [...]

Episode – 9 [This is the ninth episode of a blog series we are featuring on the famous battle of Chambb of the 1971 War, as narrated by veterans of the 5th Battalion, the Sikh Regiment, one of [...]

Episode – 8 [This is the eighth episode of a blog series we are featuring on the famous battle of Chambb of the 1971 War, as narrated by veterans of the 5th Battalion, the Sikh Regiment, one of [...]