Nearly every fratricide and suicide case in the Indian armed forces has a mental health backdrop. It's time to formalise counselling and psychological profiling of soldiers.
Lance Naik Gopal Singh Bhadoriya's medal was delayed due to a dispute between his parents & widow over service benefits. He gave his life fighting terrorists in J&K in 2017.
Rather’s family and neighbours believed he was working with the Army. But, after he was shot dead by suspected terrorists in March, Army claimed he was ‘overground’ worker.
Col Ashutosh Sharma, Major Anuj Sood, two Army jawans and J&K Police sub-inspector Shakeel Qazi had gone to rescue civilians taken hostage by 4 terrorists.
Rather than presenting the full spectrum of Indian culture at once, a more strategic approach would be to identify one globally intelligible cultural lane & invest in it consistently.
The countries signed a memorandum for co-development of UNICORN masts in November 2024. India has been second Asian nation to have such an agreement with Tokyo, after Philippines.
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