When Pakistan first attacked in September 1965, the main objective of the GOC-in-C of the Western Command, Lieutenant General Harbakhsh Singh, was not to cede a single square inch of Indian land to the enemy. And despite the valour and strategic brilliance of the Pakistan Army and Air Force, the Indian Armed Forces, through sheer strength of will, emerged triumphant – sometimes even in battles where it first seemed that all was lost. The Monsoon War is an ...
Honour and Fidelity: India’s Military Contribution to the Great War 1914-18
Turbaned Tornado is the biography of Fauja Singh (born on 1 April 1911), a centenarian British Sikh. He is a marathon runner of Indian descent and a world record holder in his age bracket. Adidas’s poster boy once, Fauja Singh became the world’s oldest half marathon runner when he completed the 2010 Luxembourg InterFaith Marathon at the age of 99. Turbaned Tornado captures Fauja Singh’s zest for life and his invincible spirit. It traces the ...
