those Assamese girls in chadors with rifles

Many say that the government never actively encouraged any such initiative because there is little glory in defeat. The Sino-India of 1962 began on October 20, 1962 and ended in a month, after China declared a unilateral ceasefire and withdrew troops. 

INVASION – NADIR SHAH : SON OF THE IRON SWORD

He was born poor, taken as a slave, yet he rose to rule the world. He was the world's greatest thief and a conman - who betrayed everyone. He was NADIR SHAH - the bearer of Koh-i-Noor. Son of the Iron Sword & Lord of the Axe

Battle of Jhara, The Kurukshetra of Kutch

"We have to live up to the expectation of these great souls who sacrificed their lives for the motherland" Battle of Jhara was a sanguinary battle in which, though the Jadejas of Kutch lost, they stood out even better than their enemies for their outstanding valour and commitment to the country to the extent that the memory cherished even today. No wonder the bards called it Haldhigathi of the Kutch and Kurukshetra of the Kutch.

ON MY WAY TO NALANDA –

For an ordinary Indian who reads the glorious History of Nalanda and gory details of its destruction in 1193 A.D, this is a euphemism at best and chicanery at worst. The naming of Bakhtiyarpur is a ruse to eclipse the politically unpleasant events of history, that the frail emotional-intellectual constitutions of particular communities may not be offended; and that the almost apocryphal narration of the ‘high virtues’ of a pre-independence political entity may enable its domination of the free country’s government.