On 4–5 December 1971, one under-strength company held a lone Thar post against a Pakistani armoured brigade — then the IAF turned dawn into a turkey shoot. Braver than Bollywood's telling.
After the shocks of 1962 and 1965, Indira Gandhi carved a dedicated foreign-intelligence service out of the Intelligence Bureau. The man she chose to build it from scratch was Rameshwar Nath Kao.
Three months after Vajpayee's peace bus to Lahore, Pakistani soldiers held the Kargil heights above the highway. Retaking them cost 527 Indian lives — and exposed an intelligence failure.
A stolen election, a genocide, ten million refugees, and a two-front war that ended in the largest military surrender since 1945 — the 1971 story, told honestly.
Born in 1657, executed in 1689, Shivaji's eldest son held the entire Mughal army at bay for nine years — and his defiant death lit a resistance that outlasted the empire that killed him.
Born at Shivneri in 1630, crowned Chhatrapati at Raigad in 1674 — Shivaji turned hill forts, light cavalry and ganimi kava into a Maratha state that outlasted its founder by a century.
You keep spotting blue-black marks but don't remember bumping into anything. Most of the time it's thin skin, age or a common medicine — but a few patterns are worth showing a doctor.
Spotted a few greys too early and tempted to pluck them or drown your scalp in oil? Most early greying is in your genes — but a quiet B12 or thyroid problem can hide behind it, and that's fixable.
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