Colours of Glory

08/05/2026

https://www.coloursofglory.org/till-their-legs-will-swell/

Journals of An Itinerant Army Officer The reading eye craves something original. Something written that taps the tinfoil of memory and things forgotten through the eye. A book or article to one’s taste is rare to come by these days. Nay, these days anything new is hard to come by, so well educated...

04/05/2026

https://www.coloursofglory.org/the-window-ghost/

Journals of an Itinerant Army Officer Ghosts have distinct personalities and favour to move by lunar cycles. I have yet to hear of a ghost who simply rang the doorbell and entered through the main door of the house. I had always had a wish to be allotted a house with a ghost but had […]

29/04/2026

https://www.coloursofglory.org/robinhood-of-kathiawar-and-other-extraordinary-stories-from-indias-freedom-movement/

BOOK REVIEW Ordinarily, I am not given to emotions. But the extraordinary stories this extraordinary book narrates moistened my eyes a lot frequently. The book has fifty chapters, the last of which pays tribute to the Gandhian legacy. The rest of the chapters however, tell the stories of people who....

13/04/2026

https://www.coloursofglory.org/unequal-justice-in-uniform/

Recent court orders granting full pension to women Short Service Commission (SSC) officers of the Army—and earlier, of the Air Force—have been widely hailed as long-overdue justice. They are. But they also expose an uncomfortable and troubling truth: justice in uniform appears selective. For dec...

16/02/2026

https://www.coloursofglory.org/beyond-the-hero/

Reclaiming the Collective Story of War Indians are hero worshippers. They cannot help it, it’s inherent in their genes. That’s one of the reasons we find a string of war movies streaming out of Bollywood studios in recent times, depicting the life and times of one or other war hero, some of them...

01/02/2026

Mini Troopers getting ready!

28/01/2026

https://www.coloursofglory.org/120-bahadur-an-iconic-last-stand-vividly-recounted/

Film Review Bravery is not too challenging for a body of soldiers when they are winning a battle. It is when you are losing one and fighting with your back to the wall that the true bravery of soldiers is tested. That too, rare comes the instances when collective bravery comes to the fore, when […...