UYYALAWADA NARASIMHA REDDY
The Rebel who Championed a Peasant Revolt that jolted the British Agrarian reforms are problematic universally and when a traditional system is tampered with, it is bound to cause friction. This [...]
THE COORG WAR
Fall of the last South Indian Kingdom to the British The English East India Company, having done away with Tipu Sultan by the end of 18th Century and subdued the Marathas in the following two [...]
A Tribute to the Armed Forces
[The sixth poem on a war poetry series penned with a stanza for each alphabet] Armed to the teeth and always close at hand, Army, Navy and the Air Force are the pride of our land Beasts of war [...]
VELU THAMPI DALAWA
The Architect of the Travancore Rebellion In the early years of the 19th Century, after the British succeeded in putting out the fires of the Pazhassi revolt in northern Kerala, the whole of [...]
The Battle of Saragarhi
[The fifth poem on a war poetry series] Indian history has a battle of eighteen ninety seven, The heroes numbered no more than three times number seven. The British Indian army had the North West [...]
ENGAGING THE TALIBAN; SLEEPING WITH THE DEVIL
“Afghan-origin Terror prime concern: India” blares out the headline of one of India’s leading dailies the other day, adding “Centre says it conveyed this to the Taliban at Qatar meeting”. Wow [...]
World War II – Liberation of Mariana Islands
[The fourth poem on a war poetry series on WWII] 1944 witnessed tide of the war being turned, The Japanese to lose their grip, their authority spurned. The strategic location of Marianas key to [...]
Vellore Mutiny
The First Major Uprising of the Sepoys against the British For nearly two centuries since the first Englishmen began trading in India, the Indo-British relations were largely one of cultural [...]
