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#RiyazNaikoo enjoyed spending time in his apple orchard & watching the apples scatter on the grass.
He didn’t come up with the Theory of Gravity because another Kashmiri boy had already cracked that.
So he tried his best to think up something smarter, but to no avail....
Till one day he said
‘Screw it’! & picked up the gun.
‘Not only will I look cool but some gushy journalist will call me a FB poster boy’.
After all, how many roses can one paint ?
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Must admit I was a bit apprehensive about this military show of appreciation for #CovidWarriors ....
And that press briefing with the COD & three Chiefs didn’t exactly help assuage the uneasy newness of it all.
This morning however, received a WhatsApp message requesting the conference call scheduled for 9.30 am among supervisors, contractors & myself to discuss work & the graded opening tomorrow to be postponed by 90 mins or whenever the flypast gets over !
The general reaction thereafter on the conference call was of awe & respect.

In the words of my two most articulate co workers....
- Itne bade afsirron ne aake itna samman diya. Mera bhai hospital main kaam karta hai aur 2 hafte se ghar nahi aaya hai
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A Soldier Remembers…
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#OralHistory

By late 1949 after the Kashmir debacle General Nathu Singh recommended the Army begin recruitment in full swing.

From the usual 800-1000 recruits during my time in 1952,
a serious recruitment drive pushed by General Thimayya saw the Artillery Training Centre, Nasik Road flooded with 4-5000 to be trained.
However, with insufficient barracks, training equipment, beds, camp cots, mosquito nets & clothing.…
Depots sent us shorts leftover from the WW2 campaign of North African deserts where it was extremely hot in the day & cold at night.
So instead of issuing a pair of trousers these shorts could be brought down below knee level at sunset & folded up & buttoned in the morning !
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While going through the opinion pieces of six regular columnists that appear in our national dailies you might wonder why didn’t they also get the pink slip as unceremoniously as the rest ?
For the past thirty years at least, these esteemed writers have dished out the same stuff on the same subject with a little weekly tweaking here & there.
The only obvious difference being that when they were previously apportioning blame, it would be on this, that, whoever but definitely not the Powers That Be.
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