Indian Army

Custodial killings, detentions and demolitions haunt a mourning Kashmir
Crime / Reportage
Custodial killings, detentions and demolitions haunt a mourning Kashmir
Jatinder Kaur Tur
The men disappearing along Arunachal Pradesh’s Chinese border
Security / Reportage
The men disappearing along Arunachal Pradesh’s Chinese border
Omkar Khandekar
Crime / Reportage Army officers testify that two generals oversaw the torture and murder of civilians in Poonch Jatinder Kaur Tur
Security / Commentary Kargil, a war in which accountability lost Sushant Singh
Security / Essay How the military fell in line with Modi’s political project Sushant Singh
Crime / Reportage The Indian Army’s torture and murder of civilians in a restive Jammu Jatinder Kaur Tur
Security / Commentary The Modi government’s dangerous politicisation of the Indian Army Sushant Singh
Politics / Commentary Narendra Modi’s outsized image comes at the cost of a shrinking democracy Hartosh Singh Bal
Security / Video Episode 3: Featuring Sushant Singh | Agnipath: Sudhar ya Samjhauta? The Caravan
Conflict / Reportage The Indian Army’s secretive role in hyper-nationalist protests in Kashmir Shahid Tantray
Security / Commentary Indian bravado on Pakistan is dangerously risky when the China border crisis is on Sushant Singh
Security / Commentary Tour of Duty model could add to majoritarian violence and affect army efficiency Sushant Singh
Security / Commentary Lack of political ownership on restructuring military commands leaves the next Chief of Defence Staff with a massive challenge Sushant Singh
Crime / News UP policeman suspended; accused of illegal custody, brutal torture of former Indian Army soldier Prabhjit Singh
Conflict / Reportage The damned existence of border villages caught in the twilight zone between India and Pakistan Ashutosh Sharma
Conflict / Books A recent book speaks to the absent dialogue in India’s civil and military relations Anirudh Deshpande
Politics / Reportage Why the army's colonial and exploitative sahayak system must go Sagar
Caste / Essay The casteist and racist origins of the Indian Army’s recruitment policies Sabyasachi Dasgupta
Conflict / News Accounts of torture and harassment by Indian Army in south Kashmir Quratulain Rehbar, Masrat Zahra
Conflict / News Indian Army accused of assaulting eight-year-old with a brick in Kashmir’s Bandipora Quratulain Rehbar, Masrat Zahra
Conflict / Commentary Three defence and foreign-policy experts discuss the Balakot strikes and Indo-Pak relations The Caravan
Conflict / Excerpt Growing up in the jungles of insurgency hit Nagaland: Visier Meyasetsu Sanyü’s Naga odyssey Visier Meyasetsu Sanyu
Education / Excerpt The suffocating presence of the Indian Army on the Manipur University campus Nikhila Henry
Security / News How the Ordnance Factories, Defence Ministry and Bureaucrats Have Created A Crisis of Ammunition Shortage in India Sagar
Conflict / News What Happens When a Kashmiri Joins the Indian Army Moazum Mohammad
Law / News Rajnish Rai’s Allegations of a Fake Encounter in Assam Will Not Impact the Impunity of India’s Security Forces Kishalay Bhattacharjee
Conflict / News “I'd Given Up Hopes of Being Alive That Day”: Farooq Ahmad Dar Recounts the Human-Shield Incident on Polling-Day in Kashmir Majid Maqbool
Media / Commentary What The Ambiguity Surrounding The Surgical Strikes Tells Us About India's National Security Beat The Caravan
Conflict / Commentary Kashmiri Pandits don’t have to be flag-bearers of the Indian state Rahul Pandita
Conflict / News Residents’ Accounts Belie the Army’s Claims About Firing Deaths at Qazigund in Kashmir Fahad Shah, Adnan Bhat
Government / News For the Porters Employed by the Indian Army at Siachen, Both Help and Recognition Are Out of Reach Preksha Sharma
Conflict / News In Kupwara, the Injured Languish in Hospitals, the Shutdown Continues, and the Government Orders Yet Another Probe Moazum Mohammad