Security forces patrolling a road in Manipur’s Bishnupur district. (Photo via Facebook) For Manipur, peace has remained elusive since May 3, the day violent clashes between Meiteis and Kukis started. The cycle of violence continues despite...
Manipuri women in Chennai during a vigil calling for peace in their state. (Photo via Facebook)The Manipur ethnic violence, which started on May 3, has claimed over 150 lives and displaced more than fifty thousand people, if not more, so far. Althoug...
Women in Imphal hold a candlelight vigil to end the ethnic violence that has gripped the state since early May. (Photo: Twitter)Manipur is a landlocked state that shares a 398-kilometre international border with Myanmar. The international border is h...
Indian Army troops in Manipur. (Photo via Facebook)New Delhi/Kohima: A mob of over 1,200 women interrupted an Indian Army operation against militants in Manipur’s Kamjong district and freed 12 militants belonging to the banned terrorist group K...
A BSF patrol near an international border fencing. (File photo for representation.)“Leadership is the process of influencing people by providing them with purpose, direction, and motivation while you are operating to accomplish a mission and im...
The Rezang-la War Memorial. (Photo collected by Jai Samota through special arrangement.)“We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glory.” ~ Charles WolfeAfter the eight-day battle, which...
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with troops at a forward position during the 1962 India-China war.Dissecting Claude Arpi’s 1962 India-China war claimsDuring my studies on the hitherto obscure aspects of the 1962 India-China war, particularly wi...
The mangled remains of the bus carrying CRPF personnel that was attacked by a suicide bomber on the Jammu-Srinagar highway, on February 14, 2019. (File photo)Good intelligence is a must for the success of all operations, but it has special significan...
Border Security Force troops present guard of honour to Sujoy Lal Thaosen, an IPS officer, after he assumed the post of the director general of the force. (Photo: BSF)The need for a professional border-guarding force for the eastern and western borde...
Indian Army’s Gorkha troops sitting with China’s PLA troops somewhere in eastern Ladakh (exact location unknown). This photo was taken by a Chinese soldier days before the 1962 war started.“When we were flown into that post, we knew...