Saturday, 4 September 2021

TRAINING IN THE SOVIET UNION

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 (An edited version of this article was first carried in the Indian Naval Despatch --Summer 2021) FLASHBACK TO 1969 WHAT OUR SYNCRETIC TRA...
Monday, 23 August 2021

SENIORITY VERSUS MERIT IN THE MILITARY -THE TACIT QUANDARY

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APPOINTMENT TO   TOP POSTS OF THE INDIAN MILITARY   From time to time the media provokes a discussion on the subject of this article. When t...
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Wednesday, 14 July 2021

REFLECTIONS ON A MILITARY CAREER (COURTESY Medals and Ribbons vol 1 July-Sep 2021)

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REFLECTIONS ON A MILITARY CAREER Medals and Ribbons is perhaps an interesting magazine for both parents and students to sit together and dec...
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Sunday, 13 June 2021

IN MEMORIAM-SAMIR BANGARA (1974-2020)

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It is now a year since you left us. A very loving family left behind perhaps rudderless, till they find their safety course to steer. I am j...
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Saturday, 6 February 2021

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  A PROFILE IN NOT JUST COURAGE-MY MEMORIES OF SURESH KUNDANMAL                                   As a young Sub Lt in 1968, I was appoint...
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Friday, 9 October 2020

A TRIBUTE TO JASWANT SINGH: THE SOLDIER-SCHOLAR-POLITICIAN

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 Not even Samuel Huntington who ventured to write a seminal book on Civil-Military relations in 1957, would have imagined the power of the c...
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Tuesday, 14 July 2020

LIFE'S MYSTERIES

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LIFE’S MYSTERIES- HOW DO YOU COPE WHEN WIFE AND SON PREDECEASE YOU? Gita and I were very happily married for 46 years when Pancreatic...
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