With tremendous excitement and butterflies in the stomach, quite akin to a bride prior to the wedding day, I am awaiting D-Day in December. My wife is a step ahead of me as far as event planning is concerned. She has been busy selecting, and rejecting almost simultaneously, the wardrobe for the mome
After joining government service as a helicopter pilot, things were quite difficult in the beginning. My wife came to Chandigarh from Jalandhar to supervise the shifting and selecting a suitable domestic help as I was destined to be a forced bachelor.
I always considered myself barely an above average professional pilot. However, as I approached the end of my naval aviation career, my own self-esteem took a vault upwards.
THE announcement of elections in Punjab has brought back memories of my first elections as a helicopter pilot in 2009. I had taken premature release from the Navy and was looking forward to civil flyi
The appointment of a new Deputy Commissioner hardly affects the day-to-day life of a common man and is only a part of the routine administrative shake-up. However, for the officials of the district ad