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Most friendships made here were fake. I have heard some of the most bizarre stories about me where my character and integrity were put in question. All this when I helped the very...
On 28 April 1986, in the Ashoka Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan, the 87-year-old General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa was invested with the rank of Field Marshal and presented the baton b...
Today, let us remember Field Marshal SHFJ βSamβ Manekshaw on his 110th birth anniversary. Born into a Parsi family in Amritsar, the community had migrated from Persia to India to...
Manekshawβs tenure as Commandant of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington is remembered as much for his significant contribution to development in curriculum, training and...
On 28 April 1986, in the Ashoka Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan, the 87-year-old General Kodandera Madappa Cariappa was invested with the rank of Field Marshal and presented the baton o...
Our history is also full of inspiring stories of valour displayed by people who neither wore a uniform nor received any military training. In the picture, C-in-C General Kodandera...
βCats make friends with the cats and nowhere in the world do the cats make friends with the ratsββ Mao Political leaders go to war, the armed forces fight it and die. The kudos go...
Today we remember Field Marshal SHFJ βSamβ Manekshaw on his death anniversary. Born into a Parsi family in 1914 in Amritsar, the community migrated from Persia to India to avoid r...
Operation Cactus Lily: 1971 by Maj Gen KS Pannu, MVC (Retd) My good old friend Gen Afsir Karim asked me to write a piece for our part in the Bangladesh Operations in 1971. Those w...
The Portuguese Government showed no signs of leaving Goa, Daman and Diuβ their overseas possessions in Indiaβeven after August 1947. On the other hand, it seemed that they were neg...
Paratroopers in Goa 1961 Even after the last British soldier had left India in 1947, the country was not entirely free from foreign rule. The French and the Portuguese still clung...
A critical appraisal of the Indian military leadership on 1984: Operation Bluestar by Late Brig H.S. Sodhi. Various factors combined to bring about the conditions allegedly justif...