1/n SUNDAY-FUNDAY Bringing you 14 MILITARY TALES for sheer fun of reading and enjoying. 1st-
BOLE SO NIHAAL-SAAT-SRI-AAKAAL colsanjaypande.com/bole-so-nihaal… Many years in Punjab have made me more 'Sikh' than most Sikhs. 'Nit Name' & 'Ardas' are part of my daily prayers from last 30 years
2/n SUNDAY-FUNDAY Bringing you 14 MILITARY TALES
2nd - RISING SUN AND A MILLION DOLLAR SMILE : ARUNACHAL PRADESH : MENCHUKA 1987 colsanjaypande.com/rising-sun-and… Adi tribe was spread over the mountain slopes. Widely interspersed by distances. Small rivulets joined the main river..
3/n SUNDAY-FUNDAY Bringing you 14 MILITARY TALES
3rd-WILD ELEPHANTS : POOP THAT SHOOK ME colsanjaypande.com/wild-elephants… How close have you been to a herd of wild elephants? I never desired it but….the smell of wild elephants….
4/n SUNDAY-FUNDAY Bringing you 14 MILITARY TALES
4th-MY BLUE FLORAL CURTAINS colsanjaypande.com/my-blue-floral… I could not ask anyone ‘Excuse me, where is my house?” Sounded so weird, but then I was lost in my colony with just 50 quarters.
5/n SUNDAY-FUNDAY Bringing you 14 MILITARY TALES
5th-SANJAY, OUR HOME IS BLOWN OFF ! colsanjaypande.com/sanjay-our-hom… Trauma of terrorism still haunts my (then) 10-year-old daughter and five-year-old son when my wife had screamed loud, ‘Sanjay, our home is blown off’. Kids gathered ....
6/n SUNDAY-FUNDAY Bringing you 14 MILITARY TALES
6th-mASS X VELOCITY = MOMENTUM colsanjaypande.com/m-ass-x-veloci… Yes the ‘m’ wasn't there. An ass was.
7/n SUNDAY-FUNDAY Bringing you 14 MILITARY TALES
7th-A FEW GOOD MEN colsanjaypande.com/a-few-good-men/ Mohan was as free as I was. I saluted the judge smartly and with gratitude in my eyes I left. I came out of the court, put hand in my pocket, took out my half full cigarette packet.....
8/n SUNDAY-FUNDAY Bringing you 14 MILITARY TALES
8th-MAM, NE MARWA DIYA…(Madam, got us bashed) colsanjaypande.com/mam-ne-marwa-d…(opens in a new tab) Savita just had to see water and she slipped in the aquatic world. She was ‘friends’ with water from childhood. She did not know that ...
9/n SUNDAY-FUNDAY Bringing you 14 MILITARY TALES
9th-RISING SUN AND A MILLION DOLLAR SMILE colsanjaypande.com/rising-sun-and… 1987. I was a Captain. I reached Menchuka in Arunachal Pradesh with my 45 men after an eight day, self-contained walk. Untouched by modern man. Pure Nature.
10/n SUNDAY-FUNDAY Bringing you 14 MILITARY TALES
10th-WRONG PLACE-WRONG TIME – Aao Ji, Sharbet Pi Lo (Come have a beverage..) colsanjaypande.com/wrong-place-wr… I was at wrong place at wrong time where the ‘least’ cost to be paid was ‘life’. I was not destined to die.
11/n SUNDAY-FUNDAY Bringing you 14 MILITARY TALES
11th-NEELI CHHATRI WALA DEKHEGA – (GOD WILL LOOK AFTER YOU) colsanjaypande.com/neeli-chhatri-… Shamsher was with me for 21 yrs. He died in 2003. Since then, for 18 years Savita and later I (alone) looked after his widow and children.
12/n SUNDAY-FUNDAY Bringing you 14 MILITARY TALES
12th-INDIA ZINDABAD colsanjaypande.com/india-zindabad/ “STOP MOVEMENT” order for all military vehicles was received about 3 minutes AFTER I left Pattan Military Traffic Check Post. By 2.20pm I had covered 60 km from Kupwara to Pattan...
13/n SUNDAY-FUNDAY Bringing you 14 MILITARY TALES
13th-TUSSI BOHOT KUTTAYA MAINNU SIR JI..(You beat me hollow Sir) colsanjaypande.com/tussi-bohot-ku… I was 24 yrs. old, a Lieutenant, and could pierce through the enemy and I would make India proud of me.
14/n SUNDAY-FUNDAY Bringing you 14 MILITARY TALES
14th-LADHAI KHATAM HONE DO (LET WAR FINISH) colsanjaypande.com/ladhai-khatam-… 1965 War. This unit made a name for itself. Pakistani soldiers would shudder when the first shell landed on their head. The 100 kg shell would destroy....
15/n SUNDAY-FUNDAY Bringing you 15th SURPRISE MILITARY TALE
15th-SARV DHARM STHAL (ALL RELIGIONS PLACE) : TAMI….LAANDU…..Tamilnadu Troubles colsanjaypande.com/sarv-dharm-sth… Tamilaandu got him in trouble. He then troubled Tamilnadu. Religious Teacher of our unit was from Bihar.
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