Hero Worship, the Scourge of India.

How it has permeated our armed forces? Sachin Tendulkar, the cricket icon of India, became the focal point of a countrywide uproar some years ago, when some umpire of the international cricket [...]

Listening to the constant gibberish that goes on in India among different political dispensations, vying with each other to glorify one legacy or the other, Vedic to Mughal and Gandhian to [...]

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 [...]

Why do they fail to make the cut? “Usne Kaha Tha” – She had asked – was a Hindi movie produced by Bimal Roy in 1960. A black and white film, directed by Moni Bhattacharjee, it was based on a [...]

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 [...]

You couldn’t escape Exercise Great Escape if you had been through anyone of the Indian Army’s officer training institutions, be it NDA, IMA or OTA. This is one unique exercise when the cadets get [...]

Indians love symbolism, especially those in power. That has been their hallmark, right through the last millennium and the trend continues to date. Strangely, for inheritors of some of the [...]

The other day, I witnessed an event that filled me with immense joy and inspired me to write this. The occasion was a quiz on India’s military history that we, Colours of Glory Foundation, held [...]

Rail travellers in India, these days, do not really see, hear, or smell the vast land of ours; unless you travel by non-AC Sleeper Class or the General Compartment, the discomforts and crowding [...]

Escorting is a boring and thankless activity. To feel how insanely boring it is, you had to have escorted a convoy on one of the mountain roads of Mizoram, way back in nineteen sixties and [...]