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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 [...]

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 [...]

Reviewing the Book “Storm Troopers at Outpost Bhatti” Kargil War was one of the defining moments of India’s recent military history and prowess. Barely a decade ago, the exalted [...]

Tale of a Fiery Indian Patriot and his Gory End The daring exploits of India’s fiery freedom fighter, Chempakaraman Pillai, is fairly well-chronicled, at least in South Indian narratives. [...]

Why India Must Embrace Multi-Disciplinary Sports I am not much into watching TV programmes, including the hysterical shows that go for ‘news’. Nevertheless, I couldn’t help the other day [...]

During 2015, there was talk of the Government of India having reached an agreement with the Isak-Muivah faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (NSCN-IM), the preeminent insurgent [...]

While the propriety of Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza can be endlessly argued, it has undeniably put the Hamas on the back foot, eroding whatever public support it enjoyed and rendering it highly [...]