DK Kapila The Oracle

  The Insurgency in J&K -  Recollecting with Col Raman  Kapila   by  Dinesh K Kapila , CGM NABARD (Retd) (Updated Version Appeared in The Vayu Magazine of March 2026) - Thank you to The Editor )  What I describe here is what many young officers in infantry battalions and the  Rashtriya  Rifles would have undergone in the 1990s and 2000 to 2010 period and maybe 2015, the sheer depth of the insurgency and  shrill  propaganda. And the  vicious  cruelty often exhibited by the  well trained  radicalised terrorists.  Most were trained in Pakistan.  Raman is my first cousin, we are close. He joined the Army in the Infantry (Rajput Regiment) and when the terrorism cum insurgency arose in the early 1990s, he was in the thick of it with multiple stints in the Mountainous regions of the Jammu Region and in Kashmir.   He  had  his fair share of successes and at times failures or rather what military m...

 The Proposal, The Fossils, The Traditional and the Martinets.  Dinesh K Kapila.  Captain Bharat Bhardwaj, an Indian Army aviation pilot, knelt and proposed to his girlfriend in full uniform against the backdrop of an official military helicopter. And hell broke loose. Where did love figure in all the pontificating on it that followed. Love it was and love it is, this moment in time, just watching the couple so happy made the heart go light.  Grace and love are always so heartwarming. A slap on the wrist to the youngster and let it be, that was all there was to it. If at all. Shelley wrote it so well, “all things by a love divine, in one another’s being mingle, why not I with thine ?”.  The couple are in love. It shows. Capture that moment of time. Bless them with a long happy married life, remember he is in the Forces. Wish them a long happy years. That and may they always be in love.  There is nothing more to it. And should not be.  The youngster, a ...

  Pre Reforms and Post Reforms – A  Historical  Context.                                                                       Dinesh K Kapila  CGM (Retd) NABARD  (Published in The Business Sandesh of 02/06/2026) The context for this  are  a series of conversations and interactions with young entrepreneurs and executives. I realized to them the structural reforms of the 1990s were more of a  seamless  continuation of the earlier decades.  To effectively communicate th e major shift  in concept, orientation and policy  from the pre reform period to the y ounger generation, we  have to move away  move away from  a  dry macroeconomic  mode  and  incorporate an element of  storytelling   backed by  honest, bala...