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Today Indian hockey team won the bronze medal, re-writing history after having won an Olympic medal after 41 years. It indeed is a time to rejoice for the entire nation. Consequently, the Prime Minister of India, Mr Modi dialled the Indian hockey team's captain, just post the match to congratulate him. Footages of this call had even been trending on Twitter today. If you hear the telephonic conversation carefully, the PM had said to the captain during the call that his (captain's) voice was dull when India had lost the semi-final match but post-winning bronze his (captain's) voice feels richly enthusiastic. Indeed India did win a medal but simultaneous I believe this response indicates an important psychological feature about humans, that is, how we react to our finishes in competitive events. Investigating into this issue I found that actually studies have been done by psychologists in this area. Specifically, Psychologists Victoria Medevec and Thomas Gilovich of Cornell a

This report is based on an investigative commission that conducted an Operations Review of the Indian Army in the 1962 Sino-Indian War. Being of importance even presently and given the situation we face with the Chinese, keeping this report classified seems justifiable enough to me. The report is really insightful as it delves into nitty-gritty details using simplistic language. Thus it paints the entire scenario beautifully. Simultaneously, it has taken care to be detailed enough. I acknowledge Neville Maxwell for leaking this report out, thereby giving me the opportunity to read the literature of such significance My notes are based on the reports. There are some problems with the scanning of the report, in the sense that Maxwell had scanned and uploaded it. This has made several pages and texts in several places illegible. Also, the report goes through many battles, therefore, containing names of many places. If one is not accustomed to the geography of the region then it becomes re