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

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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 ******.”

Wishing you good night with the musical highlight of the movie "Sajan Bina Suhagan" (1978), a supremely melodious song
"Madhuban Khushboo Deta Hai".
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Narration: Capt Deepak Kanathey and Col Gyan Prakash. The film starred Rajendra Kumar, Nutan, Vinod Mehra, Padmini Kolhapure and 
Shreeram Lagoo. The film's music was by Usha Khanna.
During his days Rajendra Kumar was known as Jubilee Kumar as most of his films were jubilee hits.

Wishing you Good Night with the song *"Sayonara Sayonara"* from the film "Love in Tokyo" (1966).
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Narration: Capt Deepak Kanathey and Col Gyan Prakash. Having lived through the era when this movie was released, I can vouch that this song was the most popular song of this movie, especially among kids.
Even older Indians added a Japanese word to their vocabulary thanks to this song, and that word was ‘Sayonara” (good bye).

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.

Wishing you Good Night with the song "Abhi na jaao chhodkar" from the film "Hum Dono"( 1961), in the voices of Mohammed Rafi and Asha Bhosle.
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Narration: Capt Deepak Kanathey and Col Gyan Prakash.
#GoodNight #DevAnand #Sadhna #GoodNightSong #Bollywood This fantastic song, that has become a memorable song indelibly etched on the psyches of music lovers across the generations, was a magical song when it was released in 1961. This song, picturised on Dev Anand and Sadhna has remained popular ever since.

Wishing you Good Night with the song "Wo paas rahen ya door rahen" from the film "Badi Bahan" (1949).
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Narration: Capt Deepak Kanathey and Col Gyan Prakash.
This song “Wo paas rahen ya door rahen” is a song that touches the heart strings of the audience. The lyrics capture the sentiments of a young lady in love in 1940s so well. Imagine the social situation in the country where women were supposed to keep their feelings bottled up, and even men were no better, a song like this gives vent to the feelings of millions of hearts.

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.

Wishing you Good Night with the song "Koi lauta de mere beete huye din" from the film "Door Gagan Ki Chhaon Mein" (1964).
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Narration: Capt Deepak Kanathey and Col Gyan Prakash.
Kishore Kumar is known for singing happy songs bubbling with joie de vivre. But he could sing sad songs just as well. In fact, he has sung some wonderful sad songs reflecting different shades of sadness.
When it comes to nostalgic songs, there's absolutely no doubt that his song “Koi lauta de mere” would rank amongst the top nostalgic songs of all times.

Wishing you Good Night with the song "Kahin pe nigahen kahin pe nishana" from the film "CID"(1956).
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Narration: Capt Deepak Kanathey and Col Gyan Prakash.
Incidentally this was the debut film of Waheeda Rehman. This song, sung by Shamshad Begum, is picturised on Waheeda Rehman, Dev Anand and the film's villain Bir Sakuja. To help Dev Anand hide and distract her boss Bir, Kamini (Waheeda Rehman) sings this song. She sings, “Your eyes look elsewhere and you are perceiving something else. Let me live. Don’t make me crazy about you.”

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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

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,

Wishing you Good Night with the song "Raat ne kyaa kyaa khwaab dikhaaye" from the film "Ek Gaaon Ki Kahaani" (1957).
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Narration: Capt Deepak Kanathey and Col Gyan Prakash.
This song, sung by Talat Mahmood, has been picturised on the maestro himself. Shailendra has written this superbly imaginative song. Salil Chaudhary has composed the music.
In the movie Talat plays a doctor who is posted to a little village, where he meets Jaya (Mala Sinha); the two are attracted to each other. But, they have to separate from each other.

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."

Wishing you Good Night with the song "In ankhon ki masti" from the film "Umrao Jaan" (1981).
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Narration: Capt Deepak Kanathey and Col Gyan Prakash.
Somehow I feel that “Umrao Jaan” was to Rekha what “Paakeza” was to Meena Kumari. Both these movies were of a similar genre, showing a courtesan singing Mujra in a kotha.
Both these movies had another thing in common, viz their music, which sounded old fashioned and belonging to at least two decades ago, but the music of both these movies actually worked.

Wishing you Good Night with the song "Suhana safar aur ye mausam haseen" from the film "Madhumati"(1958).
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Narration: Capt Deepak Kanathey and Col Gyan Prakash.
This song is just as iconic as any other song of this movie. Music, lyrics, singing, picturisation- just about every thing in this song is outstanding. This song is sung by Mukesh and picturised on Dilip Kumar. Shailendra is the lyricist whereas Salil Chowdhary has composed the music.
This song is an anthem in praise of natural beauty.

Wishing you Good Night with the song "Hamne Dekhi Hai In Aankhon Ki Mahakati Khushbu" from the film "Khamoshi" (1969).
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Narration: Capt Deepak Kanathey and Col Gyan Prakash.
“Khamoshi” (1969) was a superb movie, and it earned rave reviews when it was released. It was a labour of love for the director Asit Sen (not the comedian) and it was a remake of his own Bangla movie called “Deep Jwele Jaaye” (1959).
Too bad that people have forgotten this movie, which deserved much better audience. The songs of this movie were outstanding as well.

French Medicines!

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

Wishing you Good Night with the song "O raat ke musaafir" from the film "Miss Mary" (1957).
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Narration: Capt Deepak Kanathey and Col Gyan Prakash.
I have watched the movie “Miss Mary” and I loved the movie. In fact, I liked its songs as well. The situation under which this song is sung is quite a romantic situation. Gemini Ganeshan and Meena Kumari are posing as a married couple for the sake of their job, and their employer, Rai Bahadur feels that they are not spending enough time together as befits a married couple.

🔅MELODIOUS MEMORY OF THE DAY🔅
Remembering songs from Ahista Ahista (1981).
Kabhi kisi ko muqqamal jahaan nahin miltaa...
Singer-Bhupinder/Asha Bhosle, Lyrics-Nida Fazli, Music-Khayyam
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Narration: Capt Deepak Kanathey and Col Gyan Prakash. In 1980s, Bollywood movies were inundated by “Disco” music and “Disco” craze had swept the entire nation like an epidemic.
Also this “Disco” craze was there in the mainstream movies, the non mainstream movie had their own fad. I

Wishing you Good Night with the song (or ghazal?) "Honthhon se chhoo lo tum" by Jagjit Singh from the film 'Prem Geet" (1981).
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Narration: Capt Deepak Kanathey and Col Gyan Prakash.
This song is a very soft, almost a haunting melody. A tragic love story which has music composed by Jagjit Singh and lyrics by Indeewar. A tale that brings together two creative people, Aakash (Raj Babbar) and Shikha (Anita Raj), in love. Shikha suffers from a terminal case of cancer, and the story is about how their relationship