Articles By Amit K Paul
The Cloud Messengers of Siachen
By: Amit K Paul | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 14 Sep , 2023
Between 1980 and 1983 shadow mountaineering was underway on the peaks in and around the Siachen Glacier with both India and Pakistan sending reconnaissance patrols to the region. Additionally...
The Long March to Siachen
By: Amit K Paul | Date: 09 Sep , 2023
The Crucial Meeting After preliminary discussions with Gen. A S Vaidya, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) around 9th of February 1984, a crucial meeting was called by the Northern Army Commander, Lt....
Cracking the Siachen Walnut
By: Amit K Paul | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Sep , 2023
Walnuts, also known as ‘doon’ in Kashmiri and ‘akhrot’ in Hindi are found in large numbers in the Valley. Vonth, Kaghazi and Barzul are three local varieties of Kashmiri walnuts or...
Grad-P on the Bilafond La in April 1984
By: Amit K Paul | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 25 Aug , 2023
Despite drone warfare and other technological advancements in this field it is widely accepted that the Russian artillery and its traditional artillery practices played a pivotal role in creating...
Lt Col Stobdan Kalon, VSM: The man who reconnoitered Siachen in 1978
By: Amit K Paul | Date: 16 Aug , 2023
The exploits of Col. ‘Bull’ Kumar in India’s Siachen saga are well documented. It was from his chance meeting with Volkar Stallbohm and Jaroslav Poncar in 1978 that Kumar learnt about...