On 13 Oct 1987, around 30 years from now, the Indian Army launched OP PAWAN – a war against the world’s deadliest terrorist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. read more…
Category: India’s Battles
Last Stand at Saragarhi (12 September 1897)
Exactly 120 years ago, on 12 September 1897, 21 soldiers of the 36th SIKH Regiment (Later 1 SIKH and now 4 MECHANISED INFANTRY) fought an epic battle against 10,000 Afghans read more…
The Air Battles – 1965 Indo-Pak War (Sep 1965)
The 1965 Indo-Pak war started in April with Pak forays in the Rann of Kutch, duly followed up by its incursion in August in J&K as part of well-conceived Operation read more…
Asal Uttar – The Right Response (06 – 12 Sep 1965)
It was August 1965. India was in a precarious situation. The army was recovering after a bruising in the 1962 Indo-China War. It had got the worse of the border read more…
Bloody September – The 1965 Indo-Pak War (01 – 22 Sep 1965)
Bloody September – The 1965 Indo-Pak War It was the year 1965. The Indian Army was recouping after a brutal defeat in the 1962 Indo-China War and was in the read more…
Hajipir – Captured on Ground, lost at the Bargaining Table (25 August 1965)
Very few have heard of Haji Pir Pass, fewer even know where it is and why is it so important. But this wind-swept mountain pass was the site of one read more…
Kargil – The Heights of Victory (05 May to 26 July 1999)
On 05 May 1999, a five man patrol led by Capt Saurabh Kalia moved across the rugged, mountains of Kaksar, in the Kargil Sector. It was a patrol sent to read more…
From ‘Quaid’ to ‘Bana’ (23 -27 June 1987)
In April 1984, Indian troops beat Pakistani soldiers by just four days to occupy positions on the Siachen glacier. (See ‘The Coldest War’)This set of a series of Pakistani attacks read more…
Siachen – The Coldest War (13 April 1984 onward)
In Balti they call it as Siachen – the abode of wild roses. It is a strange name for an icy glacier, 19,000 feet above sea level, where not a read more…
Panipat I – An Empire forged through Cannon Smoke (21 April 1526)
21 April 1526. On an exceptionally hot Indian summer, two armies faced off on the sun baked fields of Panipat, just 70 kilometers North West of Delhi. The clash of read more…