A nation’s movies often reflect its self-image. War films, even more so. As Indian troops face down China’s People Liberation Army in the Galwan Valley and across the Line of Actual Control, it is not entirely coincidental that the shift to such aggressive posturing by China on its real-life borders, from Ladakh to the South China Sea, was preceded in recent years by a major shift in depictions of the PLA in Chinese film
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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.…
Military veterans claim babus are thwarting PM Modi’s poll pledge of one-rank-one-pension by inflating its cost estimates Roman emperor Augustus started the tradition of military pensions…
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…
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…
Beijing passed a message last week when it tested the J-20, its new generation locally produced stealth fighter, from an airbase in Sichuan on the day…
