A Repository of Gastronomical Tales at the National Defence Academy in the years gone by…
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BON APPÉTIT...
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EAT BREAKFAST?
“Eat Breakfast?”
That wasn’t simple either.
It was both an art and a science.
After the physical routines in the morning, you were hungrier than Gandhi after his hunger strikes. On the breakfast table, the quantity of milk, butter, jam and eggs was fixed; but the amount of bread and porridge was unlimited. The technique of consuming maximum toasts and porridge within the limited
resources and time, was the crucial issue.
For starters, one could break two or three slices and mix and down them with porridge and milk. If the guy sharing the butter cube hadn’t arrived yet, slice it fair and square from top, but incline the cut thereafter to favour you. That’s almost two toasts worth of integrity hiding under the surface. He did it yesterday, when you were late, anyway! Another two toasts with eggs that were served with ham. sausage or liver. After that, there was hardly any space or time for the coffee in the gastrointestinal system.
The sadist appointments would have started giving ‘clear out calls’, even when you had planned to eat three or more slices of bread. Sometimes we landed up smuggling some bread for our brethren who missed breakfast too.
No wonder half the cadets slept in at least two to three classes before lunch.
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Mar 16, 2023 • 26 tweets • 5 min read
The story of Sonam Post...
Documented by: Brig Narender Kumar, A Veteran, and a Fellow with CLAWS.
Sonam Post, the site where 10 valiant soldiers of 19 MADRAS lost their lives in an avalanche has been thrust into the national limelight. Let me tell you how the post got its name.
It was from the simple unassuming NCO who first occupied it in a breath neck race with the Pakis way back in 1984.
I was an instructor at the High Altitude Warfare School, and I vividly remember the Deputy Commandant, Brig (then Col) Pushkar Chand telling us how he and his team
Mar 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Love the ending of this write up. Read till the end...
England Test captain Ben Stokes, @benstokes38 had his bag stolen at the King’s Cross train station in London 2 days ago. Stokes vented out his frustration over the incident on social media.
As revealed by the England allrounder, his bag contained some of his personal belongings, among which he seemed to be worried about his clothes the most.
He tweeted, “To whoever stole my bag at King’s Cross train station. I hope my clothes are too big for you ya absolute ******.”
There was a Bus Conductor, who was very rude to his passengers.
One day, a beautiful young girl, of around 18 years, tried to board the bus, but he didn't stop the bus.
Unfortunately, the beautiful young girl came under the bus and died on the spot.
Angry passengers took the conductor to the police station, who in turn took him to the court.
The Judge was not at all impressed with him and gave him capital punishment.
He was taken to the electrocution chamber. There was a single chair in the center of the room.
A PANAMA CASE
By
Brig K Nandakumaran (Retd)
62 Lion
Panama, ha, the name takes us back to NDA nostalgically where it was the choice of brand of cigarettes the cadets smoked.
Cadets and smoking?
You are right about what you are thinking.
Cadets were not supposed to smoke.
But for any self-respecting macho guy, who believed in breaking rules, this was the first of the ones he broke. They smoked, which was a profoundly serious offence; many a time got caught and underwent punishments, but it didn't really stop this menace.
🔸️Men's Underwear Index (MUI)🔸️
Men's Underwear Index (MUI) is an economic index used to measure the strength of the economy based on the demand of underwear. This index was championed by former Federal Reserve head, Alan Greenspan, as a means of detecting a looming recession
or the beginning of a recovery. It is based on the theory that men will cut back on buying new underwear when they are worried about their finances and stretch the use of the old ones instead. US sales of men’s underwear fell significantly from 2007 to 2009, during
Feb 23, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
DOLPHIN TRAINER #HumourInUniform
An elderly man rear ends a guy driving an expensive sports car.
Enraged, the guy hops out of his car and confronts the old man. “Look what you did to my car” he yells. “You’re gonna pay $10,000 right now or I’m gonna beat you to a bloody pulp!”
“Oh my” says the old man, "I don’t have that kind of money. Let me call my son, he trains dolphins and he’ll know what to do."
"Dolphins?" the other driver huffs, while rolling his eyes. The old man pulls out his phone, dials his son and just as the son answers,
Rahul Bhatia, Chief Executive of IndiGo Airlines, the so-called cheap airline in India, after arriving at a hotel in Mumbai, went to the bar and asked for a pint of Guinness.
The barman nodded and said, "That will be ₹50 please, Mr Bhatia."
Somewhat taken aback, Rahul replied, "That's very cheap," and handed over his money.
"Well, we do try to stay ahead of the competition", said the barman. "And we are serving free pints every Wednesday from 6pm until 8pm. We have the cheapest beer in Mumbai."
By Rear Admiral Mian Zahir Shah (Retd) Pakistan Navy
Like the uniform, parades are a part and parcel of military life. There are daily parades, passing out parades, ceremonial parades, and even blanket parades. There is also an obscure little parade in the
morning in every military unit, which is called the sick parade.
The sick parade is one parade that is never a favourite with the command, for the men on this parade are invariably not going to be available for work for that day. There is always a certain percentage of the ship's
