On Kargil Vijay Diwas, Vishal Batra sits down for a conversation that goes well past the legend. He speaks about a childhood in a three-room school in Chowntra, the twin bond that made two brothers write one dream on a single application form, and the four letters Vikram sent from the front — the last one asking whether his brother had cleared a bank interview. He describes standing on Batra Top twenty years later, trying to understand what happened on a one-metre ledge, and answers the hardest questions: intelligence failure, revenge, the enemy, and what Vikram would have made of India today.Vishal Batra is the identical twin brother of Captain Vikram Batra, PVC — the "Shershaah" of Kargil. A finance professional turned custodian of his brother's legacy, he has climbed both Point 5140 and Point 4875 (Batra Top), and has now written a book on the life they shared before the war.

In this episode of Syllabus of Life, political analyst Yogendra Yadav sits down for a wide-ranging, hard-hitting conversation on where India is really headed. Yogendra Yadav is a political analyst and founder of Swaraj Abhiyan and Jai Kisan Andolan, and founding National President of Swaraj India.From crony capitalism and the "two Indias" to the country's shrinking global standing, the China border question, the Adani and blackmail controversies, and his detailed case on how elections are being quietly rigged through voter lists, the SIR, and gerrymandering - nothing is off the table. Watch, fact-check every claim yourself, and decide where you stand.

In this episode of The Syllabus of Life, Ex-IRS Ravi Kapoor sits down with intelligence and geopolitics analyst Lucky to unpack the narratives shaping the world right now — and how to think critically about what we're told.The conversation ranges across the political turmoil in Bangladesh and the future of Sheikh Hasina, the Iran–Israel–US standoff and the question of ceasefires, the Russia–Ukraine war seen through a longer historical lens, Balochistan and Pakistan's internal fault lines, the role of intelligence agencies and "deep state" theories, information and narrative warfare on social media, the Ladakh and Delhi protests, and why—according to the guest—strengthening critical thinking is the only real defense against manipulation. Viewers should treat the specific claims made here as one guest's analysis and opinion, not established fact.

In this episode, Major Avinash Sahani (Retd.), 11 Para SF officer and fourth-generation military veteran, breaks down the hard truths nobody talks about — the gap between India's SF and the world's best, why joint training with foreign forces is "hogwash", the equipment and funding reality on the ground, and what Israel's pager attack tells us about intelligence penetration.He also opens up on life after the uniform — why elite SF skills don't transfer in India, his mission to build an Indian tactical gear brand benchmarked against European and American labels, and his role heading the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Armed Forces Preparatory Institute.

In this episode of The Syllabus of Life, Ex-IRS Ravi Kapoor sits down with Havildar Ajay Kumar, commando from the elite 5 Para (Special Forces) — a man who cheated death eight times before a landmine finally took his leg below the knee, and even that couldn't stop him.We remember the friend who saved his life and was later martyred — Lance Naik Om Prakash, Shaurya Chakra (posthumous). This episode is a tribute to him and to the brotherhood that carries its own home, no matter the cost.

In this episode of The Syllabus of Life, Col. Hemonto Panging returns for Part 3 with Ex-IRS Ravi Kapoor — and this time, the story moves into 1997, the year Pakistan pushed its most hardened foreign fighters into the Poonch-Rajouri sector.With no intelligence, no drones and an alienated population, Col. Panging and his men of 9 Para SF hunted terrorists the old way — night marches in rain and fog, hideouts in dhoks, fooling village dogs, and pure gut instinct. From the rainy-night operation that eliminated Shahji, the most feared terror commander of the sector, to the discovery of an SA-7 surface-to-air missile meant to shoot down an Indian aircraft, to the covert helicopter insertion that ended Abu Zubair — the terrorist who burned 30 Gujjars alive — these are operations that never reached the public.The episode also features the most unfiltered rapid-fire ever recorded on this channel: what it feels like to kill a terrorist, the Prankot massacre and its retaliation, why 9 Para are called ghost operators, and finally, the Colonel's philosophy on family, discipline, purpose and his message to India's youth.We also lost brave men in these operations. Havildar Jyot Singh and Naik Neelkanth Reddy laid down their lives for the nation. This episode is a tribute to them.

In this episode of The Syllabus of Life, Ex-IRS Ravi Kapoor sits down once again with Dr. Sanjeev Chopra — retired IAS officer, historian, bestselling author, and former Director of LBSNAA — for a masterclass on how India is actually governed.From his 32 years in the West Bengal cadre, Dr. Chopra reveals what really happens inside cabinet meetings, why some states debate policy for six hours while others "tick-tick" through decisions in 30 minutes, and how a 128-page cabinet note gets written. The conversation moves through freebies vs welfare, why 15-18% of budgets now go into cash transfers, corruption as a design flaw rather than a moral one, the coming demographic earthquake after the Census and delimitation, free speech and press freedom in India, and why every generation believes it is living through the most divided era in history — when 1909 alone gave us Gandhi, Savarkar and Aurobindo pulling in three different directions.