Fifty years on, still fresh in my mind is the day I jumped out of the Helicopter on December 9, 1971, amidst the Sylhet Garison with bullets flying around, and rushing forward to my Company.
In the freezing chill of that dark night of December 6, 1971, an eerie silence had enveloped the moving column of my battalion, 18 Punjab, as we trudged in unfamiliar, hostile territory. The immense r
In July 1967, the Government of India issued orders for three medium armoured regiments to be raised. 69 Armoured Regiment was one of them. The personnel who were to be regimented would come from the infantry (Kumaonis), Brahmins from the .
As part of Swarnim Vijay Varsh Celebrations, the Parbat Ali Regiment undertook a 680 Kms Motorcycle Expedition on Sunday and Monday from Jaipur to Munabao village in Rajasthan.
Some wars never get over, especially those where people build up a narrative that is based on half-truths to build up personalities.Kargil in 1999 was a classic case, where it took more than a decade for the Armed Forces Tribunal (AFT) and .