The Alize 1050 in 1971
By Rear Adm (Retd) S Ramsagar The flagship of the Navy, INS Vikrant was undergoing major dry-dock work in Bombay during 1971. Her one boiler […]
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WRITERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
My article in FORCE: Act Now, Big Brother!
FORCE Magazine asked me to write for them during my visit to Sri Lanka between April 23 and May 27. My dispatch has been published
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New official blog
My new official blog titled “KNOW YOUR ENEMY” is up on the Headlines Today site. I will write for it twice a week. The blog
The Voice of Pottu Amman
COLOMBO, May 11: As the country paused on Friday for three-day Vesak Poya (Sinhala for Buddha Purnima) celebrations, cold news emerged from the North, where
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EPW April 25 Issue: Pay Commission and Morale Among Defence Services
Copyright Economic & Political Weekly
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Colombo Diary: Day 2
1. As National Security Advisor MK Narayanan and Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon choppered it from the airport to the President’s Estate, I was speaking
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Colombo Diary: Day 1
About three miles short of the tarmac on Bandranaike International Airport, the aircraft ploughed through a tiny air pocket, and I think almost everyone on
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LiveFist Column: Why the Rafale goes down
Rafale shot down for real or victim of the Gripen syndrome? by Edouard Billetin Paris If we believe in recent press reports (Dow Jones, Reuters,
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The Shoe Incident
I have known Jarnail Singh for almost five years now. After five years of covering the same beat, and being co-travellers both within the country
The Next Chief
In February 2007, in a column in the Indian Express, I wrote about how the UPA government’s decision to stick to protocol and designate, for