50 years of solitude

'War forced on China'

No account of India-China war is complete without an interview with Neville Maxwell, a British journalist who has also authored a seminal book on the conflict 

Are India-China relations still frozen in 1962?

India-China relations have developed intensively in every area since 1962 — except one, the border issue.

Do you think India has not changed its approach towards the boundary issue in the last 50 years? 

Every Indian government since Jawaharlal Nehru formulated this policy has sustained his obdurate refusal to submit Indian territorial claims to the internationally accepted procedure of boundary settlement — diplomatic negotiations. (All China's other neighbours have amicably settled their borders in this way.)

Rookies earning their wings

October 8 is celebrated as air force day by the indian air force. we therefore, thought it fit to give you a glimpse of an average day of some very extraordinary people, fighter pilots. Mayank Singh spent some time with pilots of a sukhoi squadron. here’s his report.

‘HJ’, as he is known to his colleagues, looks like any other young man his age. But see him in his green overalls, and it is a different story. HJ is a fighter pilot in the making; which is to say he isn’t operational yet. But it’s only a matter of time. 

Being trained to fly the Indian Air Force’s most advanced deep penetration strike aircraft,