Sudip Talukdar
Army bears brunt of myopic political platitudes
Despite four wars being fought with Pakistan and thousands of bomb blasts devastating the soil of India, New Delhi’s pursuit of a pacifist policy towards Islamabad, except for occasional surgical…
Could have India won the 1962 war?
Although there is still much speculation about whether India could have won the 1962 war with China, the outcome would have probably been different, had the government of the day,…
Are Servicemen, soft targets for all and sundry?
There must be something radically wrong with a society that prides itself on being one of the most robust and resilient democracies of the world, but virtually tramples on the…
Indian Army’s 60 Field Ambulance: Saviours in service of humanity
“The popular image of a war hero is that of a rifle or machine gun wielding infantry soldier or a tank man or a fighter pilot. A gentle physician…
India Caught in Throes of Three-Front War
India is actually battling not one or two but three different fronts comprising China, Pakistan and some of its own citizens—the internal subversives who happen to be the most diabolical…
Was the Prospect of Nobel Peace Prize behind sell-out of 93,000 Pak Prisoners of War?
The left liberals and the anti-nationals greeted the attack on Balakot with howls of disbelief and their usual rants about ‘proof,’ questioning the veracity of the forthright Indian response,in the…
Is India doomed to being a Soft State?
Is India doomed to being a soft state, too disinclined to derive lessons from serial blunders committed during the more than 70 years of independence, with eyes wide open? The…
Diabolical underground war breaks out against India
The unspoken yet multi-dimensional war against the nation has entered its most diabolical and vilest phase in the more than 70 years of its rather uneasy existence, before which thousands…
Are CAA protests a sinister new dimension of proxy war?
India, which has never had a moment of peace, ever since Kashmiri Pandits were hounded and driven out of their homeland at gunpoint decades ago, finds itself under redoubled attack…
Time for a Final Payback!
Questions have also been raised by Baloch leaders over Pakistan’s championing the cause of liberty at the UN when it (Pakistan) itself remains the biggest violator of human rights. Prime…
Should India exercise the Baloch card?
Rattled by the abrogation of Article 370, Pakistan is brazenly threatening the nation with nuclear damnation and blackmailing the entire world into undoing the decision, as if the Islamic Republic’s…
Is there no way to checkmate vicious proxy war against India?
A vicious full blown proxy war has already broken out against India following the abrogation of articles 370 and 35A, on a scale and intensity seldom experienced by the nation…
Beware of the diabolical enemy within
The enemy within is to be feared much more than the enemy without, as events unfolding over the past 20 or 30 years have amply borne out. The external one…
Exemplary valour prevented Kargil from going the 1962 way
The Sino-Indian war of 1962 can never be erased from the country’s collective consciousness, though it is extremely doubtful whether successive political dispensations have learnt any lessons at all, except…
Is Bollywood out of sync with Indian soldiery?
Bollywood has now latched on to surgical strikes and military campaigns as a way to garner popularity and box office successes, having practically exhausted the staple of love stories, song…
The silent heroes of Indian Army
What motivates a soldier to plunge headlong into extreme danger, staking his very life for the sake of regimental pride and honour, while defending the nation? He is buoyed by…
Airstrikes wipe out decades of cowardice and humiliation
Fast paced events have overtaken the country, quite unprecedented in its post independence historical sweep, such as the devastating air strike on Balakot, the nerve-centre of Jaish-e-Mohammed’s diabolical terror network,…
Battle of Kasserine Pass: Lessons for China
In February 1943, US Forces, under the overall command of Gen Eisenhower, suffered a staggering rout at the hands of much feared Afrika Korps, in the Battle of Kasserine Pass,…
When Indian Army beat back waves of Chinese attack
(Based on an interview with late Lt Col DS Thapa., PVC) Some 56 years ago, in the small hours of October 20, the desolate Himalayan heights reverberated with the concentrated…
Has India lost the proxy war?
India has habitually been ignoring existential threats from China and its proxy Pakistan, steeped in the Nehruvian tradition of burying its head in the sand, ostrich like, at the first…
Army: Caught between Devil and deep blue sea
The Indian Army, as the most disciplined and organized force in the country, carries out every task with complete commitment and to the best of its ability, besides winning wars.…
Politics bares its ugly fangs in UP
Politics could not have sunk into more sordid depths in a state still shackled by the demons of casteism, lawlessness, graft and maladministration, yet making extravagant claims over development and…
Must nation be at the mercy of vote-banks?
Must the nation always be at the mercy of vote banks? What would explain the deafening silence of the entire political class over successive attempts to derail trains and cause…
Strategic Bungling Emboldens Hostile Neighbours
Disconnect between appearance and reality, so powerfully dramatized by Shakespeare in Hamlet, remains the bane of politics in India. On the one hand, it explains why the country is sinking…
Soldiers Fall Victim to Unrelenting Slander
Nothing could have been more sordid, slanderous or shocking than the unprecedented attack on the Army in a prime time debate on a popular English news channel. It marks the…
70 Years on, has India Learnt any Lessons?
Has India ever learnt any lessons from the colossal blunders committed at random through 70 years of independence? It seems extremely doubtful in the light of its dealings with China…
High time Army given its legitimate dues
The wave of protests staged in the wake of Subedar Ram Kishen’s suicide over OROP arrears, is a sordid example of shocking opportunism, seldom witnessed in our post independence history.…
Pak Moles: Are Peaceniks Legitimizing Acts of Rogue State?
The Brigade of Peaceniks, comprising sundry elements in the print and electronic media, NGOs, leftists and ex-ministers, which had lain low in the initial days of the Uri attack, is…
Idea of Bharat (India) Under Multiple Attacks
Chanakya, one of the sharpest minds in statecraft, observed more than two millenniums ago that poison is the best antidote to venom. There could not have been a sounder advice…
Kashmir Turning into Political Black Hole
India is floundering in a mess of its own making, whose seeds a short sighted leadership had unwittingly planted, post partition, after being in complete denial about ground realities.…