Major General H Dharmarajan, PVSM, AVSM, SM**, VSM (Retd) is an ex-Army Veteran with more than 37 years of service. An alumnus of the RIMC (Rashtriya Indian Military College) Dehradun, NDA Kharakwasla, IMA Dehradun, he has participated in active combat in Sri Lanka, and commanded operations along the disputed borders along the Northern and Western borders. He has been decorated with gallantry awards and distinguished service awards on thirteen different occasions while in service, during which he was wounded grievously while in operations against the LTTE. He has been a UN Peacekeeper in Angola during a critical phase in the 1990s. Having graduated from the DSSC, Wellington (TN), US National War College, Washington DC, National Defence College, New Delhi, he is a double MSc, MPhil, MBA. He has done the Independent Director’s Course at IIM, Mumbai, besides another programme at IIM, Calcutta. He has also undergone training in crisis management at the Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies at Hawaii, in addition to a course on international liaison in Israel. He commanded the RIMC Dehradun, and later went to command a Brigade in Arunachal Pradesh, and a frontline Division in Jammu and Kashmir during the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019. He has handled the entire Army’s Budget, in addition to dealing with numerous e-commerce initiatives under MoD and MoCI during Covid and contributing to numerous policy changes at the apex level. He has bagged numerous writing awards for his thesis and dissertations and continues to contribute to various journals. He retired as GOC Bengal in 2024, and was later recognised by the Capacity Building Commission of India for his efforts at innovatively uplifting the livelihood of the people in the border districts of Jammu and Kashmir. He is presently continuing to serve the society in the corporate sector.