Author: B Shantanu

Saluting our Heroes: Maj Somnath Sharma, PVC

From the Indian Army website: The Param Vir Chakra is awarded for most conspicuous bravery or some daring or pre-eminent act of valour or self sacrifice, in the presence of the enemy, whether on...

Who are these “caste Hindus”?

…or The Great Joke that is Indian Media – Part XI Excerpt from  an OpEd in the Indian Express (emphasis mine)*: This (Dalits entering a temple) could have made news 60 years ago. And...

Quote of the Week

Home Minister P Chidambaram: “I’ve been warning Pakistan every time…I’m warning Pakistan for the last time. If Pakistan attempts to send terrorists into India again, India will not only foil those attempts but also...

Tech Tip of the Month – Recovering Deleted Pictures

If you’ve ever found yourself having accidentally deleted v. v. important photos/audio/video from a memory card/ memory stick, SD card etc, despair not… Check out ZAR Data Recovery Software which saved my skin y’day…(and...

Saluting our Heroes: The “Param Vir Chakra” series

This post was prompted by a winding but thought-provoking conversation I had this summer with a friend and his cousin – a young serving officer in the Indian Navy. We talked politics, Jammu &...