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Yogendra Singh Yadav Param Vir Chakra Citation Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav was part of the leading team of Ghatak Platoon tasked to capture Tiger Hill on the night of 3/4 July 1999. The approach to the top was steep, snow bound and rocky. Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav, unmindful of the...

The Param Vir Chakra is India's highest War Time gallantry award. The last time it was awarded was in 1999 The Ashok Chakra is India's highest Peace Time gallantry award. This thread is about those that received the two highest gallantry awards. Feel free to add their achievements

True. But after a certain threshold, the size of the economy is no longer relevant. India is at that threshold where there is certainly no dearth of funds. Agreed about the lack of debate and no action over the past several decades.

As I said, inexperienced or not in high altitude warfare, they have the raw materials, money, processes and project management skills to plan, build and execute infrastructure projects along the borders faster than we can.

What if China loses part to Afghanistan? Or India? Or occupied Xinjiang or occupied Tibet becomes free?

What citizenship do these hold?

Don't reply to this thread since no place called IoK exists. There is only PoK and the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir. Would you respond to a claim about a fictional place like Narnia?

Good to know.

Recently Kashmiri athlete Arif Khan was the only one representing India in Winter Olympics at Beijing. China did not seem to have an issue with it. Earlier they used to staple visas or reject visas of Indian citizens from parts of India. Is China finally accepting Kashmir as integral part of...

We did. His name was Nehru.

Probably the song which defined her the most -

Sad https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/story/lata-mangeshkar-s-death-govt-announces-2-days-national-mourning-1909347-2022-02-06 two days of national mourning in the memory of legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar. Known as the 'Nightingale of India', Lata Mangeshkar passed away at Candy Breach...

I didn't say Indian Muslims have issues with Parsis and other. I said the other way around. But OK.

Agreed on a societal level, there is a lot of hate. I want to mention something else. What has surprised me is not Hindu hatred for Muslims. But also other minorities hating them. I've met Parsis who number less than 200,000 and many I've interacted with are rabidly anti Muslim. Even...

Of course it is. Just like Ku Klax Klan and Jesus freaks in middle America can't take away from the secularism of the US - the same applies to India.

What do you mean?

Again @crixus - the Supreme Court has ruled that India was and remains a secular Republic since it became a Republic - this is the case...

My personal view on this matter is that religion by its very nature is meant to pure. Politics by its very nature is meant to be dirty. You mix something pure with dirty, then you aren't going to purify religion for sure!

This is historically inaccurate. Muslims did not get the country divided. A section of Muslims did. For every Jinnah, there was a Maulana Azad too. Even in Pakistan, there were the likes of Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, known as Frontier Gandhi who received India's highest civilian honor - The...

Being steamrolled by the Japanese and having to be rescued?