G D Bakshi
Showing all 14 books
The 1971 war for the Liberation of Bangladesh was a landmark conflict in the history of South Asia. It dramatically changed the map of this region and marked a historical revival of Indian military power. In just 13 glorious and action packed days – three Indian corps sized spear heads raced for the capital city of Dacca. It was located in the most defensible, riverine terrain in the world. Yet the Indian Blitzkrieg bounced the wide rivers using Helicopters ...
This is the Military History of the Mohyals - an Indian clan of fighting Brahmins. They are Saraswat Brahmins who dwelt on the banks of the ancient river Saraswati - that once flowed from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea. As such they came in the path of each and every invader who came to loot or subjugate India. The warrior sage, Parshuram, had militarised them in the early epic period. From priests these Brahmins had morphed into Mohyal fighting Brahmins, brave ...
This is a path breaking book by a former General that seeks to evaluate Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose as a military leader and indeed, the First Supreme Commander of India. Netaji was instrumental in India getting her freedom. It is the first professional attempt to evaluate the military performance of the Indian National Army (INA) in World War-II and its significant impact on the Freedom Struggle. The book has gone into great details about each and every ...
Maelstrom Rising begins with the mysterious disappearance of a passenger aircraft, suspected to be hijacked by terrorists. Travelling on the plane is a beautiful Kashmiri woman named Ayesha, once loved by a Hizbul Mujahideen operative and raped by a dreaded Pakistani terrorist commander. Among her admirers is also Colonel Dusty Bhardwaj, an Indian Special Forces officer and the hero of the story, who is sent to the Maldives to keep an eye on the military coup ...
2014 was a critical year that saw the revival of Nationalism in India. This book examines Indian Nationalism and takes a close look at India’s National Security. It revisits the somber truth about our freedom struggle. This book uses the technique of Pattern Modelling to study India’s recent history and make forecasts about its collective future. Patterns tend to persist and repeat themselves cyclically. Hence, they become the basis for Heuristic ...
The state of Pakistan today presents a dangerous paradox. The indiscriminate weaponisation of its civil society has eroded the very basis of a modern state premised upon a monopoly of violence. Its economy has twice reached the brink of collapse in the last ten years (1998-2008) yet the Military-ISI Complex in Pakistan is conjuring visions of a new caliphate centered in Islamabad. Since 2006 it has been convinced that the USA and NATO do not have the stomach to ...
India’s continuing failure to devise credible conventional military responses to Pakistan’s asymmetric provocations has seriously eroded the credibility of its deterrence. This could invite a serious escalation of the jihadi sub-conventional assault on India. It is not possible to fight a purely defensive campaign against an asymmetric war and prevail. The adversary can simply vary the targets of attack ad infinitum. Costs have to be raised for the ...
Swami Pranvananda Saraswati, d. 1991, sage from Bengal, India.
This is a path breaking book that has attempted the first scientific analysis of Indian military history in terms of a series of RMAs (Revolutions in Military Affairs) that had profound implications in the socio-political sphere. The author has identified three critical RMAs that changed the course of Indian history. The first RMA was engendered by the Mauryans who used war elephants in the mass to generate "shock and awe". The Mughals under Babar ...
Our industrial civilisation is based upon fossil fuels. Nature took billions of years to fix the carbon to the earth's surface and sub surface. Mankind will burn it all back into the atmosphere, well before the end of this century. This will entrain the greenhouse effect of global warming. A rise in terrestrial temperatures of over 5 degrees centigrade could breed climatological collapse on a horrific scale. The era of Energy Wars, initiated with Gulf War I in ...
From quantum physics to the Veda this study of the Kundalini factor crosses the bounds of ordinary conceptual processes and takes us into a new world of quasars, black holes and psychotropic substances and their relation tour spiritual well-being. These mind-bending substances the subject of many intellectual quandaries and underground experimentation are finally blown wide apart by the outspoken revelations of G S Bakshi who talking from his personal experiences ...
Shamanism : Roots of the Rig Veda explicitly details the evolution of mankind. The very first man that trod this earth (Homo-Erectus) was in comparison to the other animal life helpless and very weak. How then did this creature manage to survive? G.D. Bakshi in this work has surmised that the earliest man was possessed with certain extra-special powers of sensory perception, which allowed him to overcome his adversities. As time passed man left his nomadic ways. ...