Month: August 2026

There are moments when the numbers themselves become unbearable. Hundreds dead. Thousands missing. Entire settlements […]

Some writers belong to their age. A few manage to escape it. Amrita Pritam belongs […]

Introduction A Century in Stirrups: Three Generations of Indian Cavalrymen is a historical non-fiction book […]

Prelude: Operation Sindoor, A Strategic Inflection Point Operation Sindoor in May 2025 demonstrated India’s military […]

Pakistan’s Economic Fragility and Military Resurgence The Planes Are Landing There is something unsettling about […]

The rapid growth of Gurugram highlights a sharp divergence in India’s urbanisation: soaring real estate […]

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh’s approval to transfer all DRDO-developed conventional missile technologies to private industry […]

“Made in India” has become an important marker of India’s growing defence-industrial capability. The transformation […]

Lt Gen PJS Pannu’s recently published book, ‘Taramandal Sangram: Space Constellations at War’ set me […]

Bitumen, Geopolitics and Green Infrastructure  When Oil Becomes a Geopolitical Weapon Every Middle East crisis […]

Introduction The history of warfare is often told through increasingly sophisticated weapons: the machine gun, […]

Taramandal Sangram, authored by Lt Gen P. J. S. Pannu, was released at a distinguished […]

PM Modi’s 15 August 2026 Independence Day address offers an expansive and confident account of […]

A humble tribute to Usain Bolt at Forty There are athletes who win races. There […]

Three internal taxes that could derail India’s growth trajectory There are moments in the life […]

From Pothole Detection to Digital Road Governance When Pothole Became an Evidence A Bengaluru engineer […]

How a young Peshwa transformed mobility, manoeuvre and audacity into an art of war The General […]

The Silence after Atal Eight years after Atal Bihari Vajpayee left us, there is something […]

Introduction  Every major war reshapes how future wars are fought and expose weaknesses that peacetime […]

The Human Cost of War Beyond the Battlefield A warship can carry thousands of men […]

From Individual Integrity to Institutional Excellence When One Officer Becomes a Phenomenon By now, Tukaram […]

My mother was born in 1944. She was three years old when India became free. […]

For most of India’s independent history, the idea of a national border conjured a fixed […]

Across cultures and institutions, management practice may differ, but one principle commands wide agreement: praise […]

He Changed the Battlefield, Not the Soldier Within I have known Colonel Subhash Deswal long […]

The Future Is Already Here Every generation has been told the same thing: the youth […]

There are moments in a nation’s history when age becomes irrelevant, and courage becomes immortal. […]

Where Going Home Has Become an Expedition Gurugram has finally achieved what it has been […]

Some heroes arrive with fanfare. They dominate headlines, command television screens, and bask in the […]

Eighty-five Years After Tagore, Are We Still Listening? Some poets write verses. A few write […]

If We Cannot Die for Our Country,  Let Us at Least Learn to Live for […]

Whenever I look back on my life, I find that memory plays a curious game […]

The forthcoming meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on August 3-5, 2026, will be held against […]

How Pakistan-Based Terror Networks Rebuilt, Relocated and Resurfaced After Operation Sindoor Every terrorist incident in […]

Every generation reinvents the art of protest. Our parents marched with empty stomachs and full […]