THE ART OF ‘KHUSHAMAD AND CHAMCHAGIRI

The C-in-C Training Command, Air Marshal Nair, decided to pay us a visit in AF Station Bidar around 1981. Most unusual, none came to visit any one in AF Station Bidar those days, unless they were [...]

May this poem serve as a tribute to the brave souls who made the ultimate sacrifice during Operation Pawan from July 1987 to January 1990. Their courage and dedication will never be forgotten, [...]

Does our military do enough for those killed in action? Indeed, it does, in terms of monetarily compensating the families of fallen service men and women, in accordance with the service rules. [...]

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 [...]