REVELRY BY THE POOLSIDE

A Swimming Gala and A Dancing Encounter Punjab is awfully hot in summer. A poolside evening party therefore, sounded a splendid idea. The large swimming pool in Patiala where it was being held [...]

In High Places Yet another memory—over half a century old—resurrected from an unassuming negative film roll. A rare experience, indeed! The first and last opportunity for a Pongo (Poor Bloody [...]

A Temple in the Land of Konyaks Back in 1980, I found myself thrust into the world of staff duties at a charming hill station in Nagaland called Chakabama. My first staff posting — ah, the joy! A [...]

On the Wings of Fancy Over half a century may have passed, but I can still feel the burn in my calves from that final, brutal ascent—four days of slugging through leech-infested, [...]

A Battle without a Cause The latest political slugfest going on in India on the three-language versus two-language system of education is rather exasperating. Is it that important an issue that [...]

A recipe for Indo-Pak reconciliation? One of the most interesting friendships I struck in my life was with a Pakistani soldier, I mean a former one, after I too had left the army. It was half a [...]

Book Review Nimbu Saab: The Barefoot Naga Kargil Hero is an evocative and stirring narrative of courage, resilience, and patriotism. Written by Neha Dwivedi and Diksha Dwivedi, it is a [...]

A Soldier Tale He was a problem child for his parents. At school, he was a backbencher and naughty. The parents had no great hopes about him, the teachers wrote him off. Nevertheless, he was full [...]

A MARVEL AND A DISASTER The other day, I had the opportunity to listen to an excellent discourse by a nonagenarian freedom fighter and dedicated Gandhian on the Indian Constitution and the [...]

Reviewing the movie ‘Amaran’ For a country that has become insensitive to the daily deaths of uniformed men in Kashmir, India needed a reminder of the trials and tribulations of our troops and [...]