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This horse has traversed eras

19 Dec 2012 3:51 AM IST
Of all regiments in the Indian Army, the one with the most historically significant name, typically spelt complicatedly by the British, is The Scinde...

Democracy for dummies

17 Nov 2012 5:30 AM IST
An alumnus of the National Defence Academy and Indian Military Academy, Major General Vinod Saighal was commissioned into The Poona Horse, a...

Perspective on recent history

7 Nov 2012 4:41 AM IST
It was some time in 1970 when the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi visited the National Defence Academy (NDA) at Khadakwasla near Pune. Some of us,...

50 years after Sino-Indian war

27 Oct 2012 3:48 AM IST
The Chinese build-up and incursions with release of maps in early 1950s  brought to the notice of the then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru by the...

Why peace in Nagaland is still a distant dream

13 Sept 2012 5:41 AM IST
On 26, August 2012, the Naga Students Federation (NSF) reiterated its stand to play a supportive role towards bringing an 'honourable, acceptable and...

The Burma conspiracy

4 Sept 2012 9:14 AM IST
President of Myanmar, U Thein Sein, who assumed office heading the new civilian government after general elections on 30 March 2011, came on a state...

Pakistan made easy, in four parts

1 Sept 2012 5:30 AM IST
The world is perhaps on tenterhooks about the safety and security of Pak’s nukes under the looming threat of Pak military/ISI raised/supported...

Assam burns, govt fiddles

17 Aug 2012 5:58 AM IST
As the 66th Independence Day was celebrated, parts of Assam reeled under the consequences of a demographic shift that challenges that very...

Not just an icy wasteland

8 Aug 2012 8:10 AM IST
In early April 2012, a severe avalanche in the Gayari sector, 15,000 feet above sea level  on Pakistan’s side of Siachen, claimed the lives of three...

The Lion of Naushera

30 July 2012 6:00 AM IST
This year, 15 July marked the 100th birth anniversary of Brigadier Mohammed Usman, Maha Vir Chakra [posthumous], the ‘Sher of Naushera’, as he got to...

A bridge not too far

16 July 2012 6:02 AM IST
Addressing the commanders of all three services at New Delhi, on 2 April, Defence Minister A K Antony highlighted that 'China’s rise as an economic...

Passage of rite

7 July 2012 5:30 AM IST
The success of Karan Puri’s blog that he started to write in college, soon lead him to write his ‘own little book’. It just so happens, it is called...
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