The Sensible Arya

  My Lai Massacre : A tale of rapes and cold blooded killings by US Army. My Lai is a small village in Quang Nai Vietnam. US soldiers used to address this region as "Pinkville"  because of the reddish colour(meaning pro communist region) used to indicate the densely populated My Lai area on military maps.  By the time Charlie Company of the 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Infantry Brigade, arrived in Vietnam in December 1967. “Pinkville” had earned a reputation as a heavily mined hotbed of Viet Cong activity. In January 1968 Charlie was one of three companies tasked with the destruction of the 48th Battalion, an especially effective Viet Cong unit operating in Quang Ngai province. Throughout February and early March, Charlie Company suffered dozens of casualties due to mines and booby traps, but it failed to engage the 48th Batallion. After the debacle of the broad Tet offensive, the...

Pandit Benimadhab : The Slayer of Muslim Invaders. Benimadhab Ray was a Kulin Barendra Brahman. He  was a resident of Tarash Chalan-Beel in the Rajshahi kingdom of Bengal.  He had a very beautiful wife. Once a Pathan warlord abducted his wife. This angered Benimadhab a lot and he decided to take revenge. He became a Bandit and acquired some followers of different castes, whom he organized into an armed outfit. Benimadhab Ray was related by marriage to the Sanyal's of Satore. The Sanyals and the Kayasthas of Satore had therefore joined his army in large numbers. He set up his base in a desolate island within the Chalan Beel where he also erected the famous Yavanmardini Kali temple. His followers used roam about the countryside and abduct Pathans  on the night of Amavasya and offer narabali of them in front of Maa Yavanmardini Kali. His two principal aides were Jugal Kishore Sanyal and Chandi Prasad Ray. They had unleashed a reign of terror on the Muslim invaders of Bengal....