Memory – Command – Art
BATTLES AND BALLADS
A storytelling company carrying soldiers' lived experiences beyond uniforms and unit lines.
Our purpose
Connecting the frontlines to the fireside, one song, scene, and page at a time.
We make room for the grief in a soldier's story as well as the courage, so that memory can be shared and remembered.
Founded by experience
Lieutenant Colonel Surender Singh
An Indian Army reservist officer who has lived the weight of command and the intimacy of loss. The company grows from that experience, turning the memory of those who served into work that can be heard, watched, and read.
Battles and Ballads exists to keep soldiers' truths intact, honoring both what was won and what was carried home.
Four creative forms
How the stories are carried
Each form gives a soldier's experience a different way to be remembered.
Music that mourns and inspires
Original compositions that hold grief and courage together, written to be sung at a fireside or heard alone.
Theatre that breathes courage
Stage work shaped in rehearsal rooms, bringing lived accounts to audiences with restraint and care.
Films of chaos and quiet
Cinema that captures both the noise of war and the long silences that follow it.
Publishing the soldier's truth
Books, essays, and letters that preserve accounts in print so they outlast the moment they were lived.