Articles [Stories & Tales]

Panipat is a small sleepy town about a 120 km from Delhi, the capital of India. Its historical importance is however very great, as it was the scene of 3 great battles that decided the crown of Hindustan.  A visit to the place shows no...

The history books for Indian school children talk of 'Akbar the great'. A falsified account of Akbar is presented with a view to foster ' secularism'. I am afraid this has not worked and the Hindu Muslim divide remains. The Madrasa's ( Muslim...

This book was the winner of the Man Booker prize for the year 2008 and that itself says something about the content and quality of the book. About the author Aravind Adiga Aravind Adiga was born in India in 1974 and was raised partly in...

The elephant is mans favorite animal. It is also a greatly loved beast and in Hindu mythology it has the form of a god in Lord Ganesh. The elephant is known as a war elephant and as a beast of burden, but one has never heard that it has ever been a...

World history is replete with thrilling tales and anecdotes. Many of them concern the army and navy.  One fact however emerges as a  common thread of the great powers is a ruthlessness to ensure that they remain at the apex. There is no...

 The  Air Force is a fine place and one of the services that has an aura and glamour of its own. Despite a PG in Nuclear Physics I joined the Air Force and trained hard to pass the course and become a Pilot Officer. That was the first...

Guru Nanak lived from 1469-1539 and as per his biography, spent the last 15 years of his life at Nankana Sahib, now in Pakistan. I have studied the writings of many Muslim writers from Punjab and Pakistan and they state that Guru Nanak was a...

I have studied Indian military history and  there was a module at the Staff College, which I underwent. Just for the record I attended the 41st Staff College  course at Wellington( named after the Duke of Wellington who defeated Napoleon...

The Indian Air Force has a checkered history and many types of planes have been part of its arsenal. Earlier the planes used by the IAF were of British origin as the IAF had been created by an act of the British parliament in 1932. It had a...

Subhash Chandra  Bose was one of the titans of the freedom struggle. He could have been a source of great inspiration to the youth of India, but fate played a trick on the Indian youth and this icon was downplayed by the Congress party and...