Operation Polo: Mewar Infantry’s last battle
Mewar Infantry battle honours flag. (Photo: Jai Samota)After centuries of fighting in the north and the west, Mewar was called out once more – this time to the south. Hav…
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Jai Samota
The author is a student and writer from Barisadri, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan. He is the author of Major Shaitan Singh, PVC: The Man in Half Light“ the only biography of the 1962 India-China war hero. He has also written a book on 21 Param Vir Chakra awardees of India's armed forces and writes poems on India's bravehearts. His first two poems Paramvir and Jeet“ have been widely appreciated.
Articles by Jai Samota
The Battle of Phillora: Where 5 Jat proved their steel yet again
The Phillora police station in Pakistan’s Sialkot sector after its capture by Indian forces during the 1965 India-Pakistan war. (Photo: Public Domain)“For the Fighting Fi…
Will to Fight: The 1962 India-China war operation at Hot Springs
A portrait of Major Ajit Singh, MVC – the hero of 1962 Hot Springs operation. (Photo for India Sentinels collected by Jai Samota via special arrangement) “Let Chinese blo…
Battle of Galwan: A lost story from the 1962 India-China war
Chinese troops attacking an Indian Army post at Galwan in 1962. (Photo credit: mymemo.cn99.com)In 1962, China said the establishment of the Indian military post at Galwan…
‘We Stared in the Eyes of Death’: The 1962 operations in Chushul
The Rezang-la War Memorial. (Photo collected by Jai Samota through special arrangement.)“We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone in his glo…
‘Death Trap’: The 1962 operations in Galwan-Chang Chenmo sector
Indian Army’s Gorkha troops sitting with China’s PLA troops somewhere in eastern Ladakh (exact location unknown). This photo was taken by a Chinese soldier days before th…
‘Gateway to Hell’: The 1962 operation in Daulat Beg Oldie
Brig Rawind Singh Grewal, MC (C) with Lt Col Bakhtawar Singh, CO 5 Jat, (L) Lt Col Nihal Singh CO 14 J&K Militia (R) and troops of both the units. (Photo courtesy: Devraj…
‘Honour, Enfield, and Panama’: The story of Lt Yog Raj Palta
Lt Yog Raj Palta. This is the story of Lieutenant Yog Raj Palta, a young and adventurous Indian Army officer who loved his Royal Enfield bike and Panama cigarettes – and …
‘Fire Till Eternity’: The story of Major Shyamal Dev Goswami
Second Lieutenant Shyamal Dev Goswami. Shyamal Dev Goswami was born on November 6, 1938, in a Bengali family from Meerut, in – what is now – Uttar Pradesh. He was a shy b…