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In the early days, everyone from Churchill to the last Pakistani felt that a heterogenous India was unnatural, ready to disintegrate anytime. After cycles of seemingly chaotic electoral democracy, India is striding forward to...

Shri Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India Honourable Prime Minister, At the outset, a very good day to you. I am a retired Army officer, presently in the Aerospace Engineering Department of IIT Madras and have been...

Preface to the book Generalship its Diseases and Their Cure by Maj Gen JFC Fuller At the battle of Waterloo, Colonel Clement, an infantry commander, fought with the most conspicuous bravery; but unfortunately, was shot through the head....

Shri Rajnath Singh Honourable Raksha Mantri Government of India My Dear Raksha Mantri, At the outset, please accept my sincere congratulations on your appointment as our Raksha Mantri. We wish you the very best in the successful execution...

The young Pilot was standing next to his Alloutte Helicopter, morose at having been put down in the morning medical before flying. As he returned from the dispersal murmuring some expletives, he had a quick...

Dear Mr Nitin Pai, I read with interest your opinion piece in The Print titled Don’t politicise Indian armed forces. Just look at what it did to our police ( https://theprint.in/opinion/dont-politicise-indian-armed-forces-just-look-at-what-it-did-to-our-police/241965/). I agree with your fundamental idea that...

Dear Mr Nitin Pai, I read your opinion piece in live mint about how new military bases could seed new cities and create jobs with great interest. ( https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/opinion-how-new-military-bases-could-seed-new-cities-and-create-jobs-1558885126976.html) Your fundamental idea of creating a win-win...

In the heat of our election results a news item slipped by. “Pakistan test-fires ballistic missile Shaheen-II”. The thought again came to mind. Naya Pakistan- Na tel (no oil). Na Pani (no water). Na...

The Basics. Digitalization is disruptive. It is transformative. In defense matters it is here to stay but has some way to go. Why? Its creators are young who do not know about defense. Its...

The Contrast In 1971 India was a poor country with strong and modern Armed Forces. Pakistan’s peremptory airstrike was shot out of the air. In the next two weeks, we bisected the nation surgically, created...

The second BRI Forum was recently held at Beijing (25-27 Apr 2019). In the first Forum, grandiose plans were announced and BRI took off like a tornado and suffered hiccups. Countries became wary of...

This article may kindly be read with my earlier articles at links indicated below for a better understanding https://palepurshankar.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-quick-supplement-for-understanding html://palepurshankar.blogspot.com/2019/04/a-simplistic-understanding-of-low-earth.html Long back I had a course-mate to whom I was explaining basic trigonometry and that Sin X/X...

Today my day was made. After three weeks I got a response on my blog (https://palepurshankar.blogspot.com/2019/03/a-rebuttal-to-spice-miss-theories-at.html) on my views which I had expressed wherein I had proved beyond doubt that The Australian expert was flawed...