After drifting for approximately thousand kilometers from Alwar, I have reached Longewala. This place romanticizes me allot. The battle of Longewala a legend in itself. It is located at 120 kms from city of Jaisalmer. Only way to reach this place is boulevard and if you are tourist then you have to hire a cab. Longewala is prevalent because of the illustrious skirmish tussled between India and Pakistan in 1971. The clash of Longewala is all about how hundred odd men clogged and overwhelmed approximately 2000 Pakistani legionnaires. This battle was all about the audacity, impetus, chauvinism and drive to prizefight exhibited by those eighty Indian warriors. This scuffle is one of my favorite scuffles, and whenever I come to this place, my mind start envisaging how horde of men repudiated the destiny. During the Indo-Pak war of 1971, A-Coy of 23 Punjab had taken up the defences at Longewala. The A-Coy company commander was Major Kuldeep Singh Chandpuri later on emer...

So finally, after lot of recommendations, I decided to watch this movie ‘The Lost Battalion’. Very conventional story about the audacious feat of American combatants during the Second World War. The story gyrates around an American battalion which has been apportioned the task to go deep in the German defences and hold the ground and it will be given flank support by French and American forces. The movie shows how more than six hundred men entered into battle and only few came back. The movie has covered the scuffle scenes in exceedingly realistic modus. I am sure the complete production team had done lot of study to portrait real mêlée scenes. Amazed to see the right tactical method used in the movie. At the end it also shows the men and officers relationship. It is a must watch movie and one should assuredly see. It can be a good learning experience for apprentices of defence management and military science. 

Previous night I was viewing a motion picture known as ‘The Pirates of Silicon Valley’. The title itself gives a clue that it is going to be associated to the IT sector. As the movie starts we meet Steve Jobs played by Noah Wyle. The solemnity of the story is Steve Jobs and his small journey of starting the venture which is worldwide known and then getting fired from his own company. But this movie seems like more of anti-Microsoft propaganda. If a movie has a villain then in this movie it is Bill Gates played by Anthony Michael Hall. It shows how the idea of windows is inspired or in terms of movie stolen from the apple. The movie could be better by showing the parallel emergence of both the rivals Microsoft and apple. But it was more the show off apple incorporation trying their best to prove that they were the small pirate in Silicon Valley, it was the Microsoft who exploited the friendship and trust of Steve Jobs. The story ...

After a very long time, I got a chance to travel to fatehgarh. A very small town in Uttar Pradesh, India. Well, I was back on roads after one long year. Traveling is fun, but it becomes more challenging when you try to find out about the interesting part of the non-interesting destinations. I must say, Fatehgarh is one of such place where it was very difficult to find the interesting facts. But from my past experiences of traveling round the world, I knew where to look and where not to look.   I came to know about a fort, which is popularly known as Fatehgarh fort. But more than this demolished fort, I was interested in a cemetery which was more than hundred years old. The interesting part of this cemetery is that it is of English officers who were governing the rule of the queen of British Empire. The interesting thing about this cemetery is that still the England government spends money on the maintenance of this cemetery. I felt it is a respect paid by a n...

As the sun disappeared in the west, we were all ready to start with our sixty kilometers run back. We were laced with one litter of water and chocolates to keep us alive on the way. We crazy bunch of adventurer were ready to kick start. We aligned our map with north direction and started towards our town. As we progressed ahead, the darkness kept on haunting us. It was so dark that we were not able to see any person ten meters ahead of us. We were running in the dried river, where the pebble stones were making things difficult for us. Our high ankle boots were good enough to prevent any kind of ankle injury. As we wanted to reach back before the first light, we were running with our backpacks. In the river, there was some water but it was not enough to drown our ankles but it was good enough to make way inside our high ankle boots to cause wetness and unrequired blisters in the foot. Now this was a challenge for us to keep our leg dry. We had torch in our hand which we were u...

I believe in one thing that one can enjoy life when a person can push limits of his capability. People generally call such kind of person crazy. I don’t mind people calling me crazy because I enjoy what I do. Recently, we did a crazy thing. It is winters and I and my friends decided to go for camping. I am not talking about the camping which people from corporate or IT sector do just to satisfy them which is even not close to any kind of camping. I am talking about hardcore camping. We purchased map of the local region, and found a very favorable place in a forest reserve. The place which we selected as camping site was full of forest and wild animals, especially snakes. It was located on a long mountain ridge. A small river passing through a village which was not very far from the camping site. The first day we reached the camping site, it was a treat to watch the greenery. We walked for almost three kilometers up-slope to reach our camping location. It was full of veget...

From past four months, I am associated with a Facebook page known as Indian Army Love Confessions . Few crazy cadets of National Defence Academy got this idea to find their dates for the ball dance through Facebook. Interestingly, their initiative became success not only among cadets and girls but also among army officers and respective wives. I really like reading the love confessions on this page which girls’ makes for their love and officers and cadets make for their crushes/love/wife.   I was going through one of the post where a girl was wondering why war between two nations occurs. I felt she is against war, but sorry lady I felt offended. If there is no war then there is no need for army, and no army then no handsome officers for whom girls would crazy. On a serious note, war is the last and important resort for any conflict between two nations. Nation’s army is the strongest punch which any government wants to save it for the last.   Once there ...