Converting cantonments to military stations
Harsha Kakar A Government notification of 27th April stated that Yol, a cantonment in Himachal Pradesh, will be the first to be converted into a military station and civilian areas, thus far a part of…
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Defence budgets and capability development
Harsha Kakar The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) in its latest report listed India as the fourth largest military spender in the world, the leaders being the US, China and Russia, who account for…
General Zorawar Singh —Is it a case of historical negationism?
Col Satish Singh ”He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past-George Orwell’ The professionalization of history from the 18/`19th and 20th century was so closely related to…
Why no Bharat Ratna for K L Saigal ?
Squadron Leader Anil Sehgal On 11 April 2023, theatre director Deepak Kumar rang me up to check if I was in Jammu. He desired to invite me to an impromptu gathering of artists to mark…
Parliament: A Temple of Democracy or Akhara for Dangal?
K B Jandial Parliament’s yet another session was washed as a result of continuous ruckus, frequent adjournments and finally adjourned sine die with almost any work. This is the new normal of the ‘highest temple…
Doklam remerges
Harsha Kakkar The King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, visited India for three days. During the visit he held interactions with the Indian leadership on multiple subjects. The king was accompanied by Tandi Dorji,…
A prolific Dogri poet
Squadron Leader Anil Sehgal Tenth September 2016 shall be remembered by the lovers of Dogri language for several reasons. This is the day sonnets in Dogri were sung before the invited audience for the first…
A strange healer
Squadron Leader Anil Sehgal He was not a doctor as we all know who a doctor is. He never attended a medical school. He had no formal training in any system of medicine; be it…
A year into the war
Harsha Kakar Biden’s visit to Kiev signalled a year into the conflict which is nowhere near termination and has transformed from a war between two states into a proxy conflict. While the west backs Ukraine…
Protests in POJK
Col B S Nagial (Retd) The misrule of Pakistan in Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir(POJK), which include Azad Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan, reached a flashpoint when the people wrote to Italian Senator Luigi Compagna in…