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“Friends, Nobel committee members and my subjects, lend me your ears, I come to claim Nobel, not to seek it…..I am an honour ”Nobel’ man and I have always said it” You can’t blame Trump for aspiring for the Nobel, he did aspire to be the POTUS and he actually did become one, not once […]

Uniforms are glamorous and men/women donning these do not just stand out but outshine  all the others in a gathering. In the Armed Forces we take great pride in our uniforms and have the highest respect for this as well.  Now that I have finally shed the Olive Greens for good, it seems as though

I met reuben in Jul 1983 when we joined NDA Wing at Ghorpuri. He was the NDA Entrance Merit List topper, a tall dark and lanky fellow with a beaming 32 carat smile and we were allotted the same room in 49 Division of Mike Squadron. We were roomies with three others with us, which

Disclaimer: The account is actually based on real life experiences. Names have been withheld on purpose to ensure there are no comebacks whatsoever. I always thought I am entering the golden phase of my life, a ‘seenager‘, a term recently coined for people of my generation, who are teenagers at heart but are senior citizens

Fd Marshal Asim Munir can be compared with the seventeenth century fictional character, Don Quixote, who lived in his make believe world, having read about the exploits of tyranny of the Islamic invaders who plundered our country in the last millennia. Quixote, also assumed the title of Don as his modern day avatar Asim Munir

“It is the best of times, it is the worst of times”, Charles Dickens wrote that in the past tense, in his classic novel, “A Tale of Two Cities”. Here we are literally living in these very times, interesting and intriguing at the same time. In the last week we have been bombarded by the

Honeymoon was all honey albeit many moons ago, after the recent Sonam-Raja one which resulted in the groom being despatched to his heavenly abode while the coy bride did the disappearing act till the real long arms of law finally caught up with her and her accomplices. The arms turned out to be really long

“Ye dhuan sa kahan se uthata hai”, Mehdi Hassan would not be asking this question now, as all fingers will point at our National Capital Delhi. Delhi is on a high these days, come winters and Delhiites need their usual fix, without which they start suffering from withdrawal symptoms. Since last couple of years, the