Articles By Sudip Talukdar

Army bears brunt of myopic political platitudes

Army bears brunt of myopic political platitudes

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 18 May , 2023

Despite four wars being fought with Pakistan and thousands of bomb blasts devastating the soil of India, New Delhi’s pursuit of a pacifist policy towards Islamabad, except for occasional...

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Could have India won the 1962 war?

Could have India won the 1962 war?

By: Sudip Talukdar | Date: 30 Mar , 2023

Although there is  still much speculation about whether India could have won the 1962 war with China, the outcome would have probably been different, had the government of the day, described as...

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Are Servicemen, soft targets for all and sundry?

Are Servicemen, soft targets for all and sundry?

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 17 Mar , 2023

There must be something radically wrong with a society that prides itself on being one of the most robust and resilient democracies of the world, but virtually tramples on the rights of Indian...

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Indian Army’s 60 Field Ambulance: Saviours in service of humanity

Indian Army’s 60 Field Ambulance: Saviours in service of humanity

By: Sudip Talukdar | Date: 04 Mar , 2023

“The popular image of a war hero is that of a rifle or machine gun wielding infantry soldier or a tank man or a fighter pilot. A gentle physician with a stethoscope or a surgeon with a scalpel...

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India Caught in Throes of Three-Front War

India Caught in Throes of Three-Front War

By: Sudip Talukdar | Date: 24 Nov , 2021

India is actually battling not one or two but three different fronts comprising China, Pakistan and some of its own citizens—the internal subversives who happen to be the most diabolical of the...

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Tinsel town, Social Media Project Misleading Image of Indian Army

Tinsel town, Social Media Project Misleading Image of Indian Army

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Oct , 2021

Social media platforms may have demolished the monopoly of their mainstream counterparts and paved the way for the masses to have a voice of their own and influence public discourse. But nobody...

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Was the Prospect of Nobel Peace Prize behind sell-out of 93,000 Pak...

Was the Prospect of Nobel Peace Prize behind sell-out of 93,000 Pak...

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Sep , 2021

The left liberals and the anti-nationals greeted the attack on Balakot with howls of disbelief and their usual rants about ‘proof,’ questioning the veracity of the forthright Indian...

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Is India doomed to being a Soft State?

Is India doomed to being a Soft State?

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Sep , 2021

Is India doomed to being a soft state, too disinclined to derive lessons from serial blunders committed during the more than 70 years of independence, with eyes wide open? The question keeps...

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Diabolical underground war breaks out against India

Diabolical underground war breaks out against India

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 01 Feb , 2020

The unspoken yet multi-dimensional war against the nation has entered its most diabolical and vilest phase in the more than 70 years of its rather uneasy existence, before which thousands of...

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Are CAA protests a sinister new dimension of proxy war?

Are CAA protests a sinister new dimension of proxy war?

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 Dec , 2019

India, which has never had a moment of peace, ever since Kashmiri Pandits were hounded and driven out of their homeland at gunpoint decades ago, finds itself under redoubled attack over the...

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Time for a Final Payback!

Time for a Final Payback!

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Vol. 34.4 Oct-Dec 2019 | Date: 17 Dec , 2019

Questions have also been raised by Baloch leaders over Pakistan’s championing the cause of liberty at the UN when it (Pakistan) itself remains the biggest violator of human rights. Prime...

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Should India exercise the Baloch card?

Should India exercise the Baloch card?

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 08 Sep , 2019

Rattled by the abrogation of Article 370, Pakistan is brazenly threatening the nation with nuclear damnation and blackmailing the entire world into undoing the decision, as if the Islamic...

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Is there no way to checkmate vicious proxy war against India?

Is there no way to checkmate vicious proxy war against India?

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 29 Aug , 2019

A vicious full blown proxy war has already broken out against India following the abrogation of articles 370 and 35A, on a scale and intensity seldom experienced by the nation in more than 70...

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Beware of the diabolical enemy within

Beware of the diabolical enemy within

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 22 Jul , 2019

The enemy within is to be feared much more than the enemy without, as events unfolding over the past 20 or 30 years have amply borne out. The external one has a definite face and contour, while...

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Exemplary valour prevented Kargil from going the 1962 way

Exemplary valour prevented Kargil from going the 1962 way

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 05 Jul , 2019

The Sino-Indian war of 1962 can never be erased from the country’s collective consciousness, though it is extremely doubtful whether successive political dispensations have learnt any lessons at...

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Is Bollywood out of sync with Indian soldiery?

Is Bollywood out of sync with Indian soldiery?

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 19 Jun , 2019

Bollywood has now latched on to surgical strikes and military campaigns as a way to garner popularity and box office successes, having practically exhausted the staple of love stories, song and...

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The silent heroes of Indian Army

The silent heroes of Indian Army

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 27 May , 2019

What motivates a soldier to plunge headlong into extreme danger, staking his very life for the sake of regimental pride and honour, while defending the nation?  He is buoyed by the knowledge and...

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Airstrikes wipe out decades of cowardice and humiliation

Airstrikes wipe out decades of cowardice and humiliation

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 12 Mar , 2019

Fast paced events have overtaken the country, quite unprecedented in its post independence historical sweep, such as the devastating air strike on Balakot, the nerve-centre of Jaish-e-Mohammed’s...

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Resolute action, not bombast, required in terror attacks

Resolute action, not bombast, required in terror attacks

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 20 Feb , 2019

Forthright action should now replace the sheer bombast that drives political and social discourse in India, regarding wanton acts of terror against soldiers, security men and civilians alike. What...

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Battle of Kasserine Pass: Lessons for China

Battle of Kasserine Pass: Lessons for China

By: Sudip Talukdar | Issue: Net Edition | Date: 13 Nov , 2018

In February 1943, US Forces, under the overall command of Gen Eisenhower, suffered a staggering rout at the hands of much feared Afrika Korps, in the Battle of Kasserine Pass, which holds vital...

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