BATTLES AND BALLADS
From command to custodianship
Lieutenant Colonel Surender Singh served as an active reserve officer, carrying the weight of command and the intimacy of loss. Those years taught him that the hardest parts of a soldier's life are often the ones left unsaid.
Battles and Ballads was built to hold those stories with care. It moves them out of unit lines and official logs and into music, theatre, film, and print, so that memory outlasts the ceremony and the record.
Theatre
Courage, staged with restraint
Our productions bring frontline courage, tension, and comradeship onto the stage through accounts drawn from real personal experience. Actors work from the testimony itself, so each scene holds the fear, the discipline, and the quiet bond between those who served together.
We do not stage combat as spectacle. The work lingers on what it cost, the breath before an order, and the silence afterward, giving audiences room to feel what the soldier carried.
Guiding tenets
How we carry these stories
Three commitments shape every piece we make.
Grief and valor
Hold both together
We make room for the grief in a soldier's story as well as the courage. Neither is allowed to erase the other.
No glorification
Refuse the spectacle
We do not sell war as glory or recruit through patriotism. Our work refuses battlefield clichés and hero worship in favour of the person behind the uniform.
Memory beyond uniform
Outlast the record
A song, a scene, or a page can carry a memory somewhere it has not been heard before. We aim to keep soldiers' truths alive long after the official logs have closed.