Major General R. S. Phagura is a second generation Defense Services officer. He is a veteran of wars with China in 1962 and with Pakistan in 1971. He has commanded a Mountain Division in the high altitude terrain on the Northern Border with China and a Mountain Brigade in counter insurgency operations in the North East. In the Desert environ, he has functioned as Deputy General Officer Commanding of an Infantry Division on the Western Border.

He has served as the Additional Director General of (Weapons & Equipment) at the Army Headquarters. A graduate of Higher Command Course at the Army War College, he has taught military strategy, tactics and logistics at Defense Services Staff College and Army War College. He has also taught gunnery at School of Artillery.

A gunner to the core Brig Onkar Singh Goraya was commissioned in 1960, and retired in 1993 after serving in various command and staff appointments. He saw active service in 1962 (Nathu La), 1965 War (Sialkot Sector) as GS03 (Ops) and in 1971 War as BM 57 Artillery Brigade. During Operation Blue star in Amritsar he played an important role of which he has published an eye witness account in his book "Operation Blue Star and After".

In retired life Brig Goraya remains actively occupied reading, writing and participating in seminars and debates on TV. He occasionally writes in Punjabi. A staunch rationalist he is currently busy with his next work concerning Atheism. He is settled at Panchkula (Haryana) and can be contacted at onkargoraya@gmail.com