Despite the 7th Pay Commission’s award which gave 33 lakh government servants and 14 lakh defence personnel (with 54 lakh retirees and 18 lakh veterans) salary…
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The Prime Minister’s second Independence Day speech from the Red Fort was received differently in different quarters but there is one political constituency where it got…
The colour of the Prime Minister’s turban at the Red Fort had changed — from red in 2014 to mustard-yellow in 2015. So had the context.…
Roman emperor Augustus started the tradition of military pensions in 13 BC by guaranteeing life pensions to every legionary who fought 20 years for Rome. It…
The last time Samba was in the national headlines was when the Delhi High Court acquitted some of the accused officers from the infamous Samba spy…
The Bofors case has been compared to Banquo’s ghost in Macbeth, a symbolic returning embodiment of downfall and guilt, and also to the Terminator series, with…
Much has been written about the Shakespearian pantomime of the honest general seething with petty resentments and the honest minister, redolent in repose; both seemingly self-obsessed…
Honour is a funny word, an abstract concept that can mean anything based on the context. Old soldiers will tell you that when it really comes…
Absurdness comes in various forms. In the stratified levels of the uniformed bureaucracy it seems to come in the form of a birth day, or more…
At a time when the Army is being accused of a gender bias in denying permanent commissions to women officers, two stories have symbolised the debate…
