FROM HERE AND THERE......
Good Morning India.....

The proverbial pot of sins of these Babus and the Government is now at the point of overflowing as far as the Defence Forces of India are concerned. There is a likely hood of serious outcomes having local and world wide repercussions. These corrupt, criminal entities think that we are still an Army just out of Pickwick papers and will always do their bidding, irrespective of illegal and other injustices heaped upon us. 

Like the British trained the old British Indian Army to think in terms of asking questions of their rulers as being very close to mutiny.. It is important to recall what happened to the finest Fighting Force in the world during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

The Defence Forces of India are the only entity which are not corrupt, do not ask for more than what they had been promised legally as terms of service conditions while joining. The Armed Forces do not have a majority of a bunch of criminals with registered cases for dacoity, loot, thuggery, rape and molesters roaming around in the garb of politicians ruling this country, where the EC and judiciary are afraid to ban them from elections for a lifetime.

These bunch of babus which form the GOI on which illiterate politicians and part time Ministers are dependant for running day to day governance, embezzling tax payers money are whittling away our Izzat (respect), facilities and what have you at every opportunity. 1857 in a different form is now in the making. Youngsters may not join the Army, the Navy or the Air Force looking at the state of affairs. In the near future there may be plenty of Sukhois but no pilots to fill the cockpit seats nor technicians to maintain them, or no naval personnel to sail the destroyers and submarines, or soldiers to man weapon systems and fight a ground battle.

This stark reality does not appear to bother this Nation nor its Government, which is so callous that it does not even appoint a Minister of Defence. This is the start, that a Senior Army Officer is on the way to lodging a case against the Babus and the GOI for reneging on the terms of service legally promised for citizens joining the Forces. What can be more shameful. Fit case for everybody concerned to drown them selves in a fistful of water.

"Attend now, my braves. I have mustered ye all round this capstan; and ye mates, flank me with your lances; and ye harpooners, stand there with your irons; and ye, stout mariners, ring me in, that I may in some sort revive a noble custom of my fisherman fathers before me. O men, you will yet see that - Ha! boy, come back? bad pennies come not sooner. Hand it me. Why, now, this pewter had run brimming again, wer't not thou St. Vitus' imp - away, thou ague!

"Advance, ye mates! Cross your lances full before me." Amen".

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Army officer’s legal notice to Centre over free ration

The Centre's decision to stop free rations to military officers in peace postings+ has sparked off a legal battle with a senior Army officer sending a notice to the government through defence secretary Sanjay Mitra, seeking a reversal of the order within 60 days.

Deputy Judge Advocate-General of Headquarters 12 Corps Col Mukul Dev has threatened to move court after this period if the order is not reversed. A copy of the letter is with TOI.

In his notice, under Section 80 of the Civil Procedure Code, Col Dev states that he joined the Army in 1988 after going through an UPSC advertisement/notification in a leading newspaper regarding the Combined Defence Services examination.

"Besides other terms and conditions of service clearly spelt out in the notification, there was the provision of free rations. There was no mention of the provision of cash in lieu of free rations. It was only after weighing all the conditions of service that I applied for a commission in the Army. It has now been intimated that officers of the Indian Armed Forces posted in peace areas won't receive any free rations with effect from July 1. They shall be paid a paltry sum of Rs 96.03 as ration money.

STOP THE TANK : A BATTLE TANK, DEVOID OF ALL ITS FITMENTS KEPT AS A SOUVENIR AT JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY

FROM HERE AND THERE…….
Good Evening India….

This was a left hand side write up on the Editorial page of the Indian Express of 25th July which I reproduce below, author un-named. I think the heads, I mean the Intellectual, cognitive capabilities and the psychology of the thinking process of Seema Chisti and her editors requires to be examined. By cognitive I mean Psychological processes involved in acquisition and understanding of knowledge, formation of beliefs and attitudes, and decision making and problem solving. 

I think its time Seema Chisti and her cohorts in the IE, should be required to read Frank Dikötter’s masterpiece of historical investigation and be forever reminded of their complicity in one of the 20th century’s most criminal regimes. Frank Dikötter has helped throw back the shroud on this period of monumental, man-made catastrophe. With both narrative vigour and scholarly rigour, Mao's Great Famine documents how Mao Zedong's impetuosity was the demise of tens of millions of ordinary Chinese who perished unnecessarily in this spasm of revolutionary extremism.' - Orville Schell, former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

With the likes of these people at the helm of propaganda, who knows, we may be heading for such brutalities in another guise. It is time the citizens of this country woke up and paid put to these pseudo seculars, government basher pseudo intellectuals who garnish a loin of roast pork with cream and sugar icing and making it an art of shoving it down our throats.

Yes, this is intellectual Debauchery to its extremes.
It's at times good to air one’s views, it gets off your chest once and for all stuff that has come to mind that has a significance with how you think and your views and perceptions of life. It's also subliminally how you are as a person too, and that is probably the part or element of you that materialises in what you say and possibly what you'd rather keep to yourself, even though there's nothing wrong with giving that information out, it's just that it can throw signals about you that could be deemed negative, but that's the way it is.

Facebook and to some extent Twitter and others are the most popular areas of voicing one's opinion publicly, rants can include birthday bashes, general events, personal gripes, world and political comments, views on society at large, our work, or something we feel we can boast about to try and elevate our status somewhat, alternatively we can ramble on about something not so grand and try to solicit sympathy, there are other endless permutations linked to why we do things.

However when it comes to a National news paper of repute (hic!), it becomes more important to be more rational and neutral in the thinking which goes into editorials. After all news papers are read by scores of citizens Nationwide, and one way or the other there is always a subtle conditioning of perceptions, which always must be kept in mind.

Therefore I personally feel news papers should stick to reporting news and not sitting in judgement and moralising on issues.
Today, in our short lived throwaway society of cheap morals, high levels of mental health problems and instability, all avenues are open which we may take because it gives us some kudos or pleasure (and the type of pleasure is subjective here) in stating our case, it’s usually because we can and it's available and more open than being cloistered in a closed loop of internal congregants. However news papers like the likes of the IE and their Chief Editors like the Communistic government bashing Seema Chisti, take this Intellectual Debauchery to ridiculous extents.

If you read this statement below
“The university ought to be a safe haven for the freedom of thought where nothing except knowledge is sacred, and where questions are far more important than easy answers. The tank would be a conversation-stopper”. Further goes on to state, “That's serious stopping power, especially in a context in which public debate is already being conditioned by a pervasive militarisation, which romanticises symbols like flags and uniforms and demonises the critical faculty as anti-national”.
Nothing can be more Moronic.

There are nut cases galore in the domain of paid news but this takes the cake.

I reproduce the editorial from the IE.

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STOP THE TANK

JNU's VC peddles a dangerous idea. University must not
succumb to pervasive militarisation that threatens debate

M JAGADESH KUMAR, VICE-CHANCELLOR of Jawaharlal Nehru University,
has sought the help of General V.K. Singh to have an army tank parked on campus, to remind students of the sacrifices soldiers make. Would he like the tank to be armed with live ammunition to give the reminder additional force? Per formative, self-congratulatory patriotism remains the last refuge of the discredited, but the VC may well discover that a tank is poor armour against the objections of those who still remember that a university campus is an inappropriate venue for the valorisation of militarism.

Of course, the men and women in uniform deserve our respect and gratitude. But this should not be symbolically expressed at institutions of learning. Commemorative military hardware is displayed at institutions and in prominent places in several Indian cities, to remind citizens of the role of the military. That is where the tank belongs, in public spaces, not on campus, where it can only be a minatory presence attenuating debate.

Not so long ago, JNU was the epicentre of the battle over nationalism, and it would now seem that having run out of arguments, the VC wants to trundle in a tank as the last word. 

That's serious stopping power, especially in a context in which public debate is already being conditioned by a pervasive militarisation, which romanticises symbols like flags and uniforms and demonises the critical faculty as anti-national. Kumar asked for his tank at the first ever celebration of Kargil Vijay Diwas at JNU, which was attended by two NDA ministers. Two of the speakers at the function spoke in self-congratulatory tones on the "capture" of JNU, and looked forward to similar occupations of Jadhavpur University and Hyderabad Central University. These institutions, where the question of nationalism was debated energetically, stand on Indian Territory. The notion of occupying or capturing them is simply bizarre.

It is also sobering. The last time heavy armour figured prominently in campus life in South Asia was in East Pakistan on the night of March 25, 1971. General Yahya Khan's tanks rolled into Dhaka University as part of Operation Searchlight, beginning a massacre of intellectuals. Speaking of tanks on campus naturally recalls that terrible memory. The installation of a tank on an Indian campus would not snuff out the freedom to think quite as suddenly, but it would have an unhealthy effect on academic thought. Armour and academia just don't belong together.

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Amen…..