Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM)
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Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM) with Bar
Samanya Seva Medal (SM)
Uttam Yudh Seva Medal (UYSM) & Yudh Seva Medal (YSM)
Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM)
Special Service Medals
Indian Operation Vijay Star
Operation Parakram Medal
India High Altitude Service Medal
Videsh Seva Medal
India 50th Anniversary Independence Medal
Indian 30 Years Long Service Medal
Indian 20 Years Long Service Medal
Indian 9 Years Long Service Medal
UN UNAVEM medal
GENERAL’S JOTTINGS-TOI
Myriad hues of Navratras
THE Indian Army believes in celebratory secularism — the troops take part in festivities together. Navratras are special for me as I was commissioned in the Rajput squadron and the...
Food for thought from fauji kitchen
We are today grappling with intolerance, divisive narratives and trumped-up ‘fassad’ (tension/violence), mischievously described as ‘food jihad’. Coupled with this is the advocacy...
Managing New Shades Of Terrorism
After somewhat heady celebrations of Operation Sindoor, the nation was jolted by dastardly mayhem, triggered by cornered terrorist on the run. His car (i20) was blown-up, near icon...
INTEGRATED BATTLE GROUPS (IBGs) – SWORD ARM OF EMERGING BATTLEFIELDS
Indian Army has shifted gear in the quest for transformation. There is new doctrine taking shape, with evolving organizations- Rudra-IBGs, Bhairav-Light Strike Commando Battalions,...
Hamas to Hammer: How the Middle East became a global fault line
The world in general and geo-political analysts in particular are grappling with a disruptive disorder unleashed by President Trump. The new game play-out in the Middle East really...
Pakistan’s new game to regain strategic depth
Targets degraded by India during Operation Sindoor unmistakably highlighted Pakistan’s vulnerability in terms of lack of geographical and strategic depth. At its broadest, the coun...
Trump’s trap or India’s chance at defence modernisation?
PM Modi returned after fairly satisfactory parleys with President Trump earlier this month. There is considerable hype about Trump’s eulogies on our PM’s negotiating skills, but it...
Cannot afford another misadventure by adversaries, have to build deterrence
Republic Day is the occasion when the top brass gives a status check on national security. This is followed by the Union Budget, hence, equally important is to carefully discern bu...
The key to tackling HRD and career management in the forces
Social and electronic media are abuzz with ill-informed comments on a demi-official (DO) letter written by a senior corps commander outlining his views on the issue of women office...
Mapping conflict resolution strategies, old and new
India is making steady progress to achieve its goal of Viksit Bharat 2047, but multiple fault lines are lurking in the background, some festering and few latent ones. A cultural na...
25 years after Kargil, need to relearn some lessons
Operation Vijay is referred to in different ways in military discourse — as a conflict, limited war, and Kargil war. If we strictly apply the ‘Correlates of War’ approach pioneered...
Looking back to look ahead: Strategic challenges in 2024
While bidding farewell to 2023, it is time to take stock of strategic issues. Globally, it has indeed been a challenging year with many unresolved conflicts and Gaza joining the li...
Deciphering emerging trends in festering conflicts
Global think tanks put out an annual, projected conflict risk index every year, mapping likely conflict hotspots. This list invariably conforms to model of Greek analyst Dimitri Ki...
Outreach to veterans, who deserve a fair deal
It is somewhat reassuring that after a rather long hiatus, the top defence hierarchy is making some feeble attempts to reach out to veterans. It appears that ‘angst’, which has bee...
Why IMEC shouldn’t be a missed opportunity
The real icing of the G20 Summit was on the sidelines – in the declaration of the new India-Middle East-Europe-Economic Corridor (IMEC). This initiative, projected as pathbreaking,...
G-20: The Bharat moment
India is showcasing and articulating a newfound confidence through the G-20 summit, taking it to another level. All 19 countries and EU are attending the event, along with select i...
Resetting templates in Pak
The return of Nawaz Sharif, after a four-year exile in London, adds yet another twist to the tragicomedy charade of proxy-democracy in Pakistan. Nawaz, in his three non-consecutive...
Hamas attack and the Israeli revenge: Why there’s need for sensible end state
The Middle East has an obstinate and uncanny tendency of bouncing back into the geopolitical spotlight. On October 7, just when the world was getting closer to impending Israeli-Sa...
The need to harmonise RTI law and data protection legislation
The recently promulgated Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill, 2023 seeks to introduce far-reaching changes, which are likely to have a debilitating effect on the very effi...
Looking for sanity in Manipur
The mayhem in Manipur and simmering chaos rekindles painful memories. The first challenge on a posting to the North East is to comprehend anthropological complexities, as the key t...