THE CARNATIC WARS

Great Power Rivalries in 18th-Century India Book Review Capt D P Ramachandran The Carnatic Wars that raged in Southern India in mid-18th Century were the earliest instances of European powers [...]

LIVING WITH THE PIONEERS A Tale of Ingenuity from the Fighting First ‘Fighting First’ – Descendants of the XXIII Sikh Pioneers Somewhere in the North, c/o 56 APO – to be precise, [...]

A Passage to SPR (Selected Place of Residence) I read an interesting narrative of one of my friends Ravi Nair, my namesake, about the good old times of his father, a VCO (Viceroy’s Commission [...]

THE OPPORTUNISTIC COMMANDER Mouque da Commander In the final reckoning, it is not success or failure that defines a soldier, but the values he chooses to uphold. In battle, it is seldom the [...]

A Nostalgic Journey from the 1950s to the 1970s – Alleppey to the Army – and Beyond Watching the Amazon Prime serial “Titan – Made in India”, about the making of India’s first [...]

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 [...]

BOOK REVIEW Ordinarily, I am not given to emotions. But the extraordinary stories this extraordinary book narrates moistened my eyes a lot frequently. The book has fifty chapters, the last of [...]

Recent court orders granting full pension to women Short Service Commission (SSC) officers of the Army—and earlier, of the Air Force—have been widely hailed as long-overdue justice. They are. But [...]

Reclaiming the Collective Story of War Indians are hero worshippers. They cannot help it, it’s inherent in their genes. That’s one of the reasons we find a string of war movies streaming out of [...]