A Pantheon of Holy Cows
A brilliant column by Harish Khare in The Hindu (quite certainly one of the most sober, eloquent and insightful columnists in the country today) is […]
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Hasimara and Third Degree in 1998
Here is an amazing account I received from a retired Air Marshal recently about some of the things that happened in 1997-98 when the government
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General Sham(e)
Imagine giving your whole adult life to one of the armed forces and then ending your career, not with the adulation of your men, but
Not just high-altitude chikki
Will an empowered and independent committee mandated with dissecting the Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) be able to cure half a century’s legacy of
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Enter chopper pilot as air chief
God is not a fighter pilot. That is the punch line to an old joke in the Indian Air Force. That one line is today
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Test-flying the F/A-18 Super Hornet
As I crouched, foetus-like, on a sustained 7.5-G loop in a fighter at 9,000 feet, I knew the best was yet to come. My US
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The Indo-Pak Air War of 1965
I just heard that BharatRakshak’s PVS Jagan Mohan has received the Chief of Air Staff’s Commendation for his contribution to documenting IAF history, and particularly
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Pushing the boats out
Like post-quake diplomacy in the mountains, post-tsunami diplomacy is paying off at sea, writes SHIV AROOR, in the lead-up to Navy Day on December 4,
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