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This horse has traversed eras
19 Dec 2012 3:51 AM ISTOf 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 ISTAn 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 ISTIt 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 ISTThe 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 ISTOn 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 ISTPresident 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 ISTThe 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 ISTAs 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 ISTIn 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 ISTThis 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 ISTAddressing 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 ISTThe 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...