Articles By Maj Gaurav Arya
The Shadow of Our Silence
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Issue: Courtesy: https://majorgauravarya.wordpress.com/ | Date: 17 Mar , 2017
As a nation, we choose silence. And it is in the shadow of our silence that treason spawns its many sons. Its primary weapons are intellectual elitism and social snobbery. We are told that to be...
A Matter of Honour
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Date: 08 Feb , 2017
Major AVD Pillay was a soldier’s soldier. His father had served in the army. And he expected his son, Divakaran, to be no less. His family had a cherished tradition of bearing arms, now for the...
The Edge of The Sword
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Date: 25 Jan , 2017
Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death. – Sun Tzu, The Art...
The Green Crescent
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Date: 08 Jan , 2017
When did it exactly start? No one knows. But it can be said with a degree of certainty that in the early nineties when the Pakistanis decided that JKLF or Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, a...
A Stone with My Name
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Date: 05 Jan , 2017
Some soldier with a funny bone at 102 Infantry Brigade (Base Camp) will tell you that Siachen means ‘Rose Garden’. Its true. Maybe its funny, in a self-deprecating sort of way. Most soldiers...
A Red Motorcycle and A Country
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Issue: Courtesy: https://majorgauravarya.wordpress.com/ | Date: 17 Dec , 2016
General Sam Manekshaw paced up and down his office, his furrowed brow almost touching the center of his forehead. His lean frame was ramrod straight, his gait long and striding, typical of...
The Ripple Effect
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Date: 04 Dec , 2016
In the last 48 hours, the Indian Army has lost 7 brave hearts at Nagrota. It is with deep grief, immense helplessness and cold anger that I tell you today; we will lose many more, unless we...
Taming the Dragon
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Date: 30 Nov , 2016
All warfare is based on deception – Sun Tzu, The Art of War The Middle Kingdom has many achievements to its name, paper and gunpowder the most well known. It has been able to project an image...
The Bravest of The Brave
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Date: 18 Nov , 2016
The annals of the Indian Army are replete with stories of bravery and uncommon valor. And then there are stories of courage so overwhelming that it is almost impossible for the human soul to even...
Genuinely Fake
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Date: 11 Nov , 2016
Mahender Mishar (Mishra) of Behar (Bihar) was a short, dark man who, had you met him in a dark alley, would have probably greeted you with a polite “namaste” and moved forward, head bowed....
The Secularism of Olive Green
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Date: 25 Oct , 2016
Secularism is the separation of religion and state. Simply put, religion has nothing to do with how a country is ruled. The state itself, at least structurally, is atheist. No one will be...
Of Hawks and Doves
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Date: 14 Oct , 2016
All soldiers want peace, and this is an undisputable fact. They want peace because they are the ones who die in war. I get messages from doves that accuse me of warmongering. They say that I have...
Checkmate
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Date: 30 Sep , 2016
Yesterday evening, as I parked my car in front of gate no. 9 and walked into South Block (Indian Army Headquarters), I looked up at the grey-golden New Delhi sky. I tried hard to see if Pakistani...
A Tale of Two Cities
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Date: 28 Sep , 2016
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of...
Retribution
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Date: 20 Sep , 2016
Yesterday, eighteen of my brothers were martyred in a terror attack in Uri Sector. Eighteen homes were shattered. Children were orphaned. Their fathers will come home in a coffin, wrapped in the...
Cold Start
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Date: 18 Sep , 2016
It was an unusually warm afternoon in the autumn of 1935. Adolf Hitler sat under a tent, faithful Guderian seated next to him, reviewing maneuvers of tanks and armored vehicles, on the plains of...
Serve with Honour
By: Maj Gaurav Arya | Date: 16 Sep , 2016
Dear Officers, On 10 September this year, 249 of you (217 Gentlemen Cadets and 32 Lady Cadets) stepped over the “Antim Pag”, slow marching to the soulful Auld Lang Syne. At the majestic...