India’s PNE at
Pokhran 1974
A number of you would have seen the recent film ‘Paramanu’
and have assumed that the tests of 1998 was the seminal event signaling India’s
nuclear journey, but many of you would not have heard of Smiling Buddha, a PNE
(peaceful nuclear explosion) which was conducted some…
Smiling Buddha – Pokhran 1
India’s PNE at
Pokhran 1974
A number of you would have seen the recent film ‘Paramanu’
and have assumed that the tests of 1998 was the seminal event signaling India’s
nuclear journey, but many of you would not have heard of Smiling Buddha, a PNE
(peaceful nuclear explosion) which was conducted some…
And the role of
Hanuman in it……
What if I told you that there was a time when many a person believed
Englishmen were the descendants of Hanuman and his ape friends? And If I
continued to state that this was serious stuff, not words of sarcasm, ridicule
or any kind of contempt for the white man? Wel…
Sept 6 th 1945, Singapore – A small crowd is
gathered in front of an Azad Hind monument at Connaught Drive. As Indian
Engineers position guncotton charges, Major Donald Brunt (Royal Engineers) is
seen checking the fuses. The fuse is lit and the charges explode. Troops of the
17 th Dogra Regiment pus…
Indian role in
defusing the Korean situation 1950-54
The 38 th parallel, the real line of latitude does
not actually divide the Koreas, but in diplomatic parlance is considered to be the
divider between the two. Prior to the Second World War (1910-1945) the whole of
Korea was under the Japanese regi…
