Category: National Heroes

Saluting our Heroes: Capt Gurbachan Singh Salaria, 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...

Saluting our Heroes: Maj Shaitan Singh, 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...

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...

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 &...

Remembering Madan Lal Dhingra…

…who was hanged on this day at 0900hrs GMT in London in the year 1909 at the tender age of 26. Dhingra was no ordinary criminal. He belonged to a distinguished family from Amritsar....