Loan Waiver and its Myriad Facets

N. S. Venkataraman

The farming community has always been held in high esteem in India which possesses the second largest agricultural land in the world (around 60%), only next to the USA.

So when the farmers feel distressed, the Indian society becomes concerned and wants to do whatever it can, to help remove the crisis.  The government steps in with its schemes, offers and waivers.  Continue reading

Anecdotes from 1947-48 War

Brig. Suresh C. Sharma

The first post-independence war that India fought is the Indo-Pakistani war of 1947-48.  This war fought over the possession of the land of Kashmir has become a procrastinating, a never-ending affair in the history of India.  It seems like the battle of two warring and separated brothers who will bleed to death, leaving their families wailing and mourning, but will not want to negotiate and come to any kind of settlement.

Brig. Suresh Sharma narrates some lesser-known anecdotes of the 1947-48 War.  Continue reading