but not too deeply!
“In the year 1793, Lord Cornwallis introduced the system of Permanent Settlement in Bengal.” These lines, or some variation thereof, were printed in my history textbook of 6th standard. The page had a small, grainy, black and white photo of an English man sitting upon a horse, printed upon cheap paper. The twelve year old kid, yours truly, was really […]
Recently Bagram airfield was in the news once again. “What?”, would be the reaction of most people reading this. Bagram is a small city located near the capital Kabul, in Afghanistan. An airfield here was constructed sometime during the Cold War, I am not sure about the dates because this is not a pontificating blog post on geo-strategic issues and […]
A book review of FULL SPECTRUM by Arjun Subraminam. Rating: 7.9/10 Full Spectrum by Arjun Subramaniam is the chronological and spiritual successor to his book India’s Wars, A Military History 1947-1971. The book covers the sub-conventional military conflicts spanning the full spectrum that India has been embroiled in since her independence in 1947, but mainly focuses on the period after […]
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