Category: Pakistan related

Saluting our Heroes: Nb Subedar Bana 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...

W’end Links: Nehru, Yoga, Israel and Caste Census

Start your weekend with these excerpts from a conversation between Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and an IAS probationer, Shri Yuvaraj Karan in 1950, reproduced from the print edition of the monthly magazine “Secularism Combat” (thanks...

W’end Reading: Fake Notes, Trash, Brahma-Saraswati and AQ Khan

This is what I am reading this weekend. How Bengal towns are becoming transit points for fake notes West Bengal’s intelligence agencies have expressed concern that Pakistan-and Bangladesh-based racketeers are using the state’s Murshidabad...