59 min
1992
Salt of the Earth: The IAF at Sixty
Shiv Kunal Verma's film for the sixtieth year of the Indian Air Force.
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Media
The films Shiv Kunal Verma has made, the conversations he has had, and what he and others have written about India's wars and frontiers.
Films
Made with the Armed Forces over four decades.
59 min
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32 min
Dipti Bhalla and Shiv Kunal Verma
Standard Bearers: The National Defence Academy
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37 min
Dipti Bhalla and Shiv Kunal Verma
Making of a Warrior: The Indian Military Academy
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16 min
Dipti Bhalla and Shiv Kunal Verma
2nd Battalion, The Rajput Regiment
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30 min
Shiv Kunal Verma
Baramulla to Kargil
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17 min
Shiv Kunal Verma
Kargil I: Pakistani Prisoners of War in Conversation
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9 min
Shiv Kunal Verma
Kargil II: Pakistani Prisoners of War in Conversation
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3 min
Shiv Kunal Verma
Handing Over Bodies, Kargil 1999
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4 min
Shiv Kunal Verma
Brown Bear in Ladakh
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8 min
Dipti Bhalla and Shiv Kunal Verma
KaleidoIndia: Selected Films
Conversations
Podcasts and long-form interviews.
55 min
Vaad · Samvad
A running conversation on India's wars
Fourteen episodes with Vaad since 2023, the latest recorded in September 2026.
- Why the Army played down its Kargil victory at Point 5770
- The Pakistan Army in Bangladesh, 1971
- How the Indian Army saved Punjab in 1965
- Indian pilots against Pakistan's American jets, 1965
- Namka Chu: how one general cost the Army 281 soldiers
- The untold military history of the 1947 war in Jammu and Kashmir
- One man's advice to Nehru, and the war of 1962 Listen ↗
- A military historian reviews Operation Sindoor
- Jinnah, the British, Pakistan and the Indian military Listen ↗
- From Alexander and Porus to 1857: India's military history
- Did India really win the 1965 war?
- The Kargil war, with Brig Devinder Singh
- Why India lost the 1962 war with China Listen ↗
- Partition, 1984, Rajiv and Jinnah: Indian politics
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40 min
Asianet News English
Camera rolls from the Kargil front
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74 min
StyleRug
India, Pakistan, Kashmir and Nehru
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98 min
DEF Talks by Aadi
Hidden truths of the 1965 war
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103 min
DEF Talks by Aadi
What we don't know about the 1962 war
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81 min
Maj Gen Yash Mor
Kargil: how the truth came out of Pakistan (in Hindi)
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25 min
Fauji Days
When history comes alive: a military historian at work
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28 min
Fauji Days
The Kargil war, Part 2
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25 min
Fauji Days
The Kargil war, Part 1
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50 min
Maj Gen Yash Mor
Life of an Industani, with Maj Gen Yash Mor
- New Books Network, with the Asian Review of Books 1965: A Western Sunrise
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33 min
GFiles
1965: A Western Sunrise, with Maj Gen Jagatbir Singh
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2 min
Maj Gen Yash Mor
1965: A Western Sunrise, with Maj Gen Yash Mor
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17 min
2047India
The 1965 war
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21 min
Shiv Kunal Verma
On 1962: The War That Wasn't, Part I
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12 min
Shiv Kunal Verma
On 1962: The War That Wasn't, Part II
Talks
Lectures, seminars and literature festivals.
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88 min
Welham Military History Seminar
An Appreciation for the Future
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43 min
Centre for Indic Studies
Watershed 1962 and 1965, Part 2
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56 min
Centre for Indic Studies
Watershed 1962 and 1965: From Defeat to Victory
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96 min
Welham Military History Seminar
Air Operations, Bangladesh 1971
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71 min
Welham Military History Seminar
The Eastern Theatre, Bangladesh 1971
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16 min
TEDxYouth@WBS
An Education Module with Military History
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46 min
Bhopal Literature Festival
1962: The War That Wasn't, with Brig Sanjay Agarwal
Writing
Essays and columns by Shiv Kunal Verma.
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September 2026
The Tribune The contrasting battles of Asal Uttar and Khemkaran Book excerpt, with Brig Harash Vir SinghRead ↗
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March 2026
The Tribune Four legs on the frontlineRead ↗
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September 2025
The Tribune Thorat, the soldier who saw 1962 comingRead ↗ Archived copy
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May 2025
The Sunday Guardian Why Pakistan needs a rear-view mirrorRead ↗
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April 2025
The Sunday Guardian Pahalgam: India's moment of truthRead ↗
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2020
The Sunday Guardian Kashmir and Ladakh: a ten-part history Ten weekly parts, August to October, each as a PDFRead ↗
Interviews and Coverage
In print and online.
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October 2026
Northeast Today NITI Aayog releases the Arunachal trilogyRead ↗
- June 2025 Read ↗ Archived copy
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December 2024
The Asian Age The strategic errors behind the Se La debacleRead ↗
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November 2024
Garhwal Post Military history books by Shiv Kunal Verma laudedRead ↗
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July 2024
Asianet Newsable Meet the author of YodhaRead ↗ Archived copy
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July 2024
The New Indian India should beat China economically, not militarily In conversation with Aarti TikooRead ↗
- 2023 Read ↗ Archived copy
- December 2022 Read ↗
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December 2022
Governance Now Shooting in Kargil: a man, a camera and a warRead ↗
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February 2022
Outlook Who didn't warn Nehru?Read ↗
- September 2019 Read ↗
- 2016 Read ↗
On the Books
What reviewers have written.
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Yodha II
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January 2025
The Sunday Guardian Yodha II embraces the wide canvas of India's military history Reviewed by Maj Gen Jagatbir SinghRead ↗
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January 2025
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Yodha
- July 2024 Read ↗
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1965: A Western Sunrise
- December 2021 Read ↗
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The Northeast Trilogy
- November 2020 Read ↗
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1962: The War That Wasn't
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December 2018
The Tribune 1962: a case of Chinese whispersRead ↗
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January 2017
India and China 1962: a very particular viewRead ↗
- February 2016 Read ↗
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January 2016
Business Standard A war lost before it was foughtRead ↗
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2016
The Week The humiliation of a generalRead ↗
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December 2018
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