One year after Balakot, much water has flown in the Jhelum. Lets have a look at the actions of the day and what has followed
Category: Writings
2019 – A YEAR IN CONFLICT
2019 has been a year of near misses. 269 instances of large and small conflicts involving 30 nations have been recorded, but fortuitously none has blown out of complete control. read more…
THE ‘PANIPAT’ MOMENT
14 Jan 1761- ‘the blackest day in Indian History.’ A day when around 40-50000 Maratha warriors fell on the field of Panipat. Another 20-30,000 – mostly women and children – read more…
ECHOES OF WAR
The standoff between Iran and US is becoming uglier by the day with Trump sending additional troops to the Middle East, Iran downing a US Global Hawk and Trump ordering a read more…
Warfare in Outer Space
As Chandrayaan II takes off on its mission to the moon, India becomes only the fourth power to have launched a moon mission. Coming on the heels of the Anti-Satellite read more…
PULWAMA, BALAKOT AND BEYOND—–
On 14 February, a Kashmiri youth, who had been indoctrinated and trained in Pakistan by the Jaish-e-Mohammed, rammed his explosive loaded SUV into a CRPF vehicle, killing himself and 40 read more…
THE NILGAI
As my jeep crested the dune on the desert track, I saw the nilgai for the first time. There were thirteen of them, led by a magnificent blue buck. Some read more…
THE FAWN ON THE GREENS
As I lined up at the second hole, the fawn strolled nonchalantly across the fairway and ambled leisurely across the greens. Here in the forests and groves around which the read more…
UNNAMED
One day of bliss, And the cycle turns, To an era of restlessness, Not in sorrow But in the knowledge of that ecstasy That one has glimpsed, tasted, and is read more…
Unnamed 1
I think of the spring When the overhang lay straining with fruit And the smell of first rain placid in the air ‘It makes me feel I’m being born” she read more…