Author Varsha Bhosle gives us her views on the Counter Insurgency & Jungle Warfare School (CIJWS) run by the Indian Army, which is counted to be among the world's top military schools.

Living at 14,000 feet above sea level is no easy task for anyone. However for a number of jawans, and the officers who lead them, living at such a height is part & parcel of their duty as being a soldier of Mother India.

The Indian soldiers who counter the insurgency in India's North East are among the bravest sons and daughters of Mother India. Author Varsha Bhosle narrates her account of her interactions with some of India's finest.

Author N A Gokhale takes us to the Indian Army's premier High Altitude Commando School (HAWS), also known as the Parvat Ghatak School, where the jawans train for the unexpected at a height of 15,000 feet above sea level.

Battling Mother Nature's brutal winter at the Gurkha post in the Dras sector, along the Line of Control (LoC), is something the jawans of the Indian Army do without complaint or protest as author Praveen Swami explains in his article.

India's elephant-like intelligence apparatus has finally stood up and shaken off the dust it had gathered over the decades. Just how long it will take actually to get moving, however, is another question altogether posed by author Praveen Swami.

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