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All that you would like to know about the 1971 war.
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'Giving of orders is five per cent, seeing that the orders are carried out is the other ninety-five per cent,' recalls Major General K K Tewari, PVSM, AVSM, who commanded the Signals on the Eastern front in the 1971 War.
Lieutenant General Puneeta Arora is the first woman in the three services to reach the second highest rank in the armed forces echelon.
Pankajam Thirumalai, then 14, recalls how she met the Father of the Nation
Maitri has been continuously recording the signatures of the aurora from the giant sunspot 486\n\nfrom October 28.
Rajeev Srinivasan on one of the best film festivals in India.
There's one thing to say about reality TV. It always manages to evoke a response from you. Disgust, contempt, revulsion are often the common gut feelings brought about by these shows. And ever since Kaun Banega Crorepati made its presence felt in households all over the country, each channel has tried hard to come up with something new to hook the audience.
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A soldier's General, Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw crafted India's greatest military victory in the 1971 Indo-Pak war that created just not history, but also a new nation.
General J F R Jacob looks back at the 1971 war.
Whether the film, which has some of the most notable artists of our times including Oscar winners Nicole Kidman and Ian McKellen, along with Daniel Craig, will turn out to be another The Lord of the Rings will depend a lot on word of mouth to a great extent and on the critics for a lesser extent.
'The Indians are bastards anyway. They are plotting a war.'
'This surrender is unique, the only public surrender in history where a ceasefire was converted into surrender and signed in four hours,' says Lieutenant General J F R Jacob (retd.
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