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Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 10 Mar 2011 at 05:40:54 (UTC)

Reason
The Indian Army is the 2nd largest army in the world and one of the oldest also. The army has seen action in World War-I, World War-II,Anglo-Afgan Wars,Sino-Indian War,Indo Pak Wars,Kargil War and numerous other conflicts.

The "historical significance" the image carries clearly overweights the so called "quality". This image shows the symbol of "50th (INDEPENDENT) PARACHUTE BRIGADE (INDIA)" and below are three units of this brigade that participated in Kargil War. The units of brigade has seen action in World War-I, World War-II, Indo Pak Wars,Kargil War and numerous other conflicts. The units of this Brigade were the back bone of British Army and saw action in middle east from British side.

But i'm sorry to write that such a significant army is also one of the most "under-written" and "under-photographed" armies on wikimedia,wikipedia and other wiki projects.There is not a single image that is comparible to this one; not just on wikipedia but on the whole internet also. This is not just a rare image but it is rarest of the rarest image of one of the bravest brigades in the world.

Though this image is not of too good quality, but it is not the quality alone that make a picture featured one......it is the "historical significance".

This image represent the strength of 1.1 BILLION INDIANS and thus must be a "featured picture"

Articles in which this image appears
50th Parachute Brigade (India),Kargil War,Parachute Regiment (India),Para Commandos (India)
FP category for this image
indian army
Creator
indian_poet

Not Promoted --Makeemlighter (talk) 09:34, 10 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]