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Wisdom and education are not necessarily two sides of the same coin. If you ever wanted an example of how high education–Western education, that highly valued, albeit inflated, commodity in India–does not bring wisdom, one just have to read architect Gautam Bhatia’s downright disparaging and insensitive article on the National…

Exactly two months after he embarked on India’s biggest warship, the aircraft carrier, INS Vikramaditya, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will once again visit a naval establishment to commission an indigenously built stealth destroyer. On 16 August, INS Kolkata, built at the Defence Public Sector Unit, Mumbai-based Mazgaon Docks Ltd will…

There is anger and dismay among the top brass of the Indian Navy. In what is seen as blatant favouratism, the Naval HQ has ‘bent rules’ to facilitate promotion of a key aide to the Chief of Naval Staff (CNS), Admiral RK Dhowan, available documents show. A circular issued a…

Day I, 28 July: We leave Leh, Ladakh’s capital exactly at 7. In fact when you travel in the mountains, its always best to start as early as possible, even may be an hour before we actually left. Our first destination: Phobrang village (see map). As we follow the District Collector…