I really do not know what you are expecting. If you are expecting a lot of discussion on the military aspects, you will be very disappointed. Although I will touch on the geo-political aspects of this war as well as some of the previous wars in brief, what I want to show you today is that this war that is taking place, this Kargil affair, cannot be seen in isolation. It was something that was coming and has been coming not once, not twice, but many many times and from the Sri Aurobindonian point of view of history, events are always manifestations of the inner consciousness, of what is going on within the human being. I will try today to show you the political t

My Experience with the Indian Army   By Kittu Reddy     In the early 1990s the chief of staff of the Indian Army, General B.C. Joshi, invited me to help raise the level of motivation in the Army from the prevalent, normal level of consciousness to a higher spiritual level. This paper is an informal, non-academic discussion of some of the results of accepting that assignment. But first it would be helpful to know something of the structure of the Army organization. Very briefly there are several important points about the armed forces that it is necessary to understand.   First of a

General B.C Joshi- a tribute   It has been a little more than ten years since the sudden and untimely passing away of Gen BC Joshi. Gen Joshi became Chief of Army Staff on 2nd July 1993 and passed away on 18th November 1994. It will be both useful and instructive to look back at the contribution of the Late Chief to the Indian Army whose career was so abruptly cut short in the middle of his tenure. Not being myself a military man, it will be presumptuous on my part to evaluate his contributions on the military plane; but as a human being and purely from the human angle it will be worthwhile to gauge the influence he had on the Armed