Homo sapiens were Genetically Engineered? Striking Resemblances Mahabharata and The Stone Tablets of Sumer

The birth of Dronacharya from the Mahabharata

The birth of Dronacharya, the Guru of the Pandavas and Kauravas in the Mahabharata, is very interesting. It would not be wrong to say that Dronacharya is the first test tube baby in the world. Rishi Bharadwaja is the father of Dronacharya and mother is an Apasara name Krithaji. One evening Rishi Bharadwaja was getting ready to do his evening prayers. He went to the Ganga River to take his usual bath but was amazed to find a beautiful woman bathing at his usual spot in the river.On seeing Rishi Bharadwaja, the beautiful Apsara Krithaji got out of the Ganga River wearing a single loin cloth. Rishi Bharadwaja was moved by the heavenly beauty of the Apsara. Overpowered by the moment, the sage involuntarily emitted his semen. The Rishi collected this sperm in a clay pot and stored it in a dark place in his Ashram. Drona was born in this pot. 'Dronam' means pot and 'Dronar' is one who was born from the pot.

The Birth of the first genetically engineered male on Earth (Adamu or Adam) as Decsribed in the Sixth Hieroglyphic Stone tablet (Translated by Dr Ezra Sitchin) found in Sumer which is more than 30,000 years old.

In the clay vessel the admixture they made,

The oval of an Earth female with Anunnaki male essence they put together;

The fertilized egg into the womb of Ninmah by Enki was inserted; there was conception!

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The pregnancy, by an admixture conceived, how long will it last? to

each other they wondered.

Will it be nine months of Nibiru, will it be nine months of Earth?

Longer than on Earth, quicker than on Nibiru, travail came; to a male child

Ninmah birth was giving!

Enki the boy child held in his hands; the image of perfection he was.                        

He slapped the newborn on his hindparts; the newborn uttered proper sounds!

He handed the newborn to Ninmah; she held him up in her hands.

My hands have made it! victoriously she shouted.

Now this is the account of how Adamu by name was called,

And how Ti-Amat as a counterpart female for him was fashioned.

The newborn's visage and limbs the leaders carefully examined:

Of good shape were his ears, his eyes were not clogged,

His limbs were proper, hindparts like legs, foreparts like hands were shaped.

Shaggy like the wild ones he was not, dark black his head hair was,

Smooth was his skin, smooth as the Anunnaki skin it was,

Like dark red blood was its color, like the clay of the Abzu was its hue.

They looked at his malehood: Odd was its shape, by a skin was its forepart surrounded,

Unlike that of Anunnaki malehood it was, a skin from its forepart was hanging!

Let the Earthling from us Anunnaki by this foreskin be distinguished! So was Enki

saying.

The newborn to cry was beginning; to her chest Ninmah closely drew him;

Her breast to him she gave; the breast he began to suckle.

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Perfection we did attain! Ningishzidda with elation was saying.

A contrary view on re- naming Delhi roads with special reference to Aurangzeb.

A contrary view on re- naming Delhi roads with special reference to Aurangzeb.

I hold Dr. Abdul Kalam in an extremely  high esteem and he was very dear to me. Yet I feel in the expanding Capital Delhi some other new upcoming and suitably grand road should have been named after him, rather than renaming of Aurangzeb road as  the most revered and most respected "Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam" Road.

The reasons for selecting "Aurangzeb" Road for the change are not very convincing. They range from the Emperor being a Muslim Fundamentalist, to being  intolerant of other religions, even an idiotic leader who valued his outdated medieval religious beliefs over practicality.

The worst thing you can do in history is to indulge in absolutism. The roads of New Delhi were named after Indian Emperors by the British. Aurangzeb was one of them. For the Good or Bad. Changing names, renaming roads etc is not going to help anybody or make a qualitative difference. Embrace your history for what it is.

An Interesting Excerpt from "QUORA"

The noted Indian scholar and historian, Dr Bishambhar Nath Pande, ranked among the very few Indians and fewer still Hindu historians who tried to be a little careful when dealing with the Muslim rule in India that lasted for almost 1000 years. Dr Pande passed away on 1 June 1998 and Impact International of London (July 1998) wrote the following obituary which we think sheds some light into some of the myths on Indian history, such as on Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, created by the British with the clear objective of divide and rule:

The noted Indian scholar and historian, Dr Bishambhar Nath Pande, ranked among the very few Indians and fewer still Hindu historians who tried to be little careful when dealing with the Muslim rule in India that lasted for almost 1000 years. Dr Pande passed away on 1 June 1998 and Impact International of London (July 1998) wrote the following obituary [at the end of the article], which we think sheds some light into some of the myths on Indian history, such as on Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, created by the British with the clear objective of divide and rule:

The Muslim rule in India lasted for almost 1000 years. How come then, asked the British historian Sir Henry Elliot, that Hindus 'had not left any account which could enable us to gauge the traumatic impact the Muslim conquest and rule had on them'? Since there was none, Elliot went on to produce his own eight-volume History of India from its own historians (1867). His history claimed Hindus were slain for disputing with 'Mohammedans', generally prohibited from worshipping and taking out religious processions, their idols were mutilated, their temples destroyed, they were forced into conversions and marriages, and were killed and massacred by drunk Muslim tyrants. Thus Sir Henry, and scores of other Empire scholars, went on to produce a synthetic Hindu versus Muslim history of India, and their lies became history.

However, the noted Indian scholar and historian, Dr Bishambhar Nath Pande, who passed away in New Delhi on 1 June 1998, ranked among the very few Indians and fewer still Hindu historians who tried to be a little careful when dealing with such history. He knew that this history was 'originally compiled by European writers' whose main objective was to produce a history that would serve their policy of divide and rule. Lord Curzon (Governor General of India 1895-99 and Viceroy 1899-1904, d.1925) was told by the Secretary of State for India, George Francis Hamilton, that they 'should so plan the educational text books that the differences between community and community are further strengthened'. Another Viceroy, Lord Dufferin (1884-88), was advised by the Secretary of State in London that the 'division of religious feelings is greatly to our advantage', and that he expected 'some good as a result of your committee of inquiry on Indian education and on teaching material'. 'We have maintained our power in India by playing-off one part against the other,' the Secretary of State for India reminded yet another Viceroy, Lord Elgin (1862-63), 'and we must continue to do so. Do all you can, therefore, to prevent all having a common feeling.' In his famous Khuda Bakhsh Annual Lecture (1985) Dr Pande said: 'Thus under a definite policy the Indian history books text-books were so falsified and distorted as to give an impression that the medieval [i.e. Muslim] period of Indian history was full of atrocities committed by Muslim rulers on their Hindu subjects and the Hindus had to suffer terrible indignities under Muslim rule. And there were no common factors [between Hindus and Muslims] in social, political and economic life.'

Therefore, Dr Pande was extra careful. Whenever he came across a 'fact' that looked odd to him, he would try to check and verify rather than adopt it uncritically. He came across a history text-book taught in the Anglo-Bengali College, Allahabad which claimed that 'three thousand Brahmins had committed suicide as Tipu wanted to convert them forcibly into the fold of Islam'. The author was a very famous scholar, Dr Har Prashad Shastri, head of the department of Sanskrit at Calcutta University. Tipu Sultan (1750-99), who ruled over the South Indian state of Mysore (1782-99), is one of the most heroic figures in Indian history. He died on the battlefield, fighting the British. Was it true? Dr Pande wrote immediately to the author and asked him for the source on which he had based this episode in his text-book. After several reminders, Dr Shastri replied that he had taken this information from theMysore Gazetteer. So Dr Pande requested the Mysore University vice chancellor, Sir Brijendra Nath Seal, to verify for him Dr Shastri's statement from the Gazetteer. Sir Brijendra referred his letter to Prof Srikantia who was then working on a new edition of the Gazetteer. Srikantia wrote to say that the Gazetteer mentioned no such incident and, as a historian himself, he was certain that nothing like this had taken place. Prof Srikantia added that both the prime minister and the commander-in-chief of Tipu Sultan were themselves Brahmins. He also enclosed a list of 136 Hindu temples which used to receive annual grants from the Sultan's treasury. It transpired that Shastri had lifted this story from Colonel Miles' History of Mysore which Miles claimed he had taken from a Persian manuscript in the personal library of Queen Victoria. When Dr Pande checked further, he found that no such manuscript existed in Queen Victoria's library. Yet Dr Shastri's book was being used as a high school history text-book in seven Indian states, Assam, Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. So he sent his entire correspondence about the book to the vice chancellor of Calcutta University, Sir Ashutosh Chaudhary. Sir Ashutosh promptly ordered Shashtri's book out of the course. Yet years later, in 1972, Dr Pande was surprised to discover the same suicide story was still being taught as 'history' in junior high schools in Uttar Pradesh. The lie had found currency as a fact of history.

The Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb (born 1618, reigned 1658-1707) is the most reviled of all Muslim rulers in India. He was supposed to be a great destroyer of temples and oppressor of Hindus, and a 'fundamentalist' too! As chairman of the Allahabad Municipality (1948-53), Dr Pande had to deal witha land dispute between two temple priests. One of them had filed in evidence some farmans (royal orders) to prove that Aurangzeb had, besides cash, gifted the land in question for the maintenance of his temple. Might they not be fake, Dr Pande thought, in view of Aurangzeb's fanatically anti-Hindu image? He showed them to his friend, Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru, a distinguished lawyer as well a great scholar of Arabic and Persian. He was also a Brahmin. Sapru examined the documents and declared they were genuine farmans issued by Aurangzeb. For Dr Pande this was a 'new image of Aurangzeb'; so he wrote to the chief priests of the various important temples, all over the country, requesting photocopies of any farman issued by Aurangzeb that they may have in their possession. The response was overwhelming; he got farmans from several principal Hindu and jain temples, even from Sikh Gurudwaras in northern India. These farmans, issued between 1659 and 1685, related to grant of jagir (large parcel of agricultural lands) to support regular maintenance of these places of worship. Dr Pande's research showed that Aurangzeb was as solicitous of the rights and welfare of his non-Muslim subjects as he was of his Muslim subjects. Hindu plaintiffs received full justice against their Muslims respondents and, if guilty, Muslims were given punishment as necessary.

One of the greatest charges against Aurangzeb is of the demolition ofVishwanath temple in Banaras (Varanasi). That was a fact, but Dr Pande unravelled the reason for it. 'While Aurangzeb was passing near Varanasi on his way to Bengal, the Hindu Rajas in his retinue requested that if the halt was made for a day, their Ranis may go to Varanasi, have a dip in the Ganges and pay their homage to Lord Vishwanath. Aurangzeb readily agreed. 'Army pickets were posted on the five mile route to Varanasi. The Ranis made journey on the palkis [palanquins]. They took their dip in the Ganges and went to the Vishwanath temple to pay their homage. After offering puja [worship] all the Ranis returned except one, the Maharani of Kutch. A thorough search was made of the temple precincts but the Rani was to be found nowhere. 'When Aurangzeb came to know of this, he was very much enraged. He sent his senior officers to search for the Rani. Ultimately they found that statue of Ganesh [the elephant-headed god which was fixed in the wall was a moveable one. When the statue was moved, they saw a flight of stairs that led to the basement. To their horror they found the missing Rani dishonoured and crying deprived of all her ornaments. The basement was just beneath Lord Vishwanath's seat.' The Rajas demanded salutary action, and 'Aurangzeb ordered that as the sacred precincts have been despoiled, Lord Vishwanath may be moved to some other place, the temple be razed to the ground and the Mahant [head priest] be arrested and punished'. (B N Pande, Islam and Indian Culture, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna, 1987) Dr Pande believed in the innate goodness of human nature.

Despite all that senseless hate and periodical outbreak of anti-Muslim violence after independence, he remained an optimist. When one of the worst riots took place in 1979 in Ahmadabad, in which more than 2,000 Muslims were killed and 6,000 houses burnt, Dr Pande travelled there to see whether there was 'any humanity still alive'. Yes, it was in one locality, Mewabhai Chaal, where he found that all the houses had been burnt down. Did they all belong to Muslims? No. Only 35 belonged to Muslims; some 125 belonged to Hindus, he was told. So, it meant, the arsonists came in two different waves; one destroying the Muslim houses and the other the Hindu houses? No, it was only one wave, said Kalayan Singh. That one, there, he pointed out to smoke billowing from what used to be his house and his tyre-shop. He was a Hindu and he had lost property and business worth 200,000 rupees. The miscreants had asked him to point out the Muslim houses so they could spare the Hindu houses. Kalyan Singh refused, and watched as the mob set fire to all the houses - including his own. How could I betray my Muslim neighbours? he asked Dr Pande rhetorically. Dr Pande also went to the Muslim students hostel. One-third of its residents were Hindus. "Come out all you Hindu students," yelled a murderous mob gathered outside the hostel. No, we won't, shouted back the Hindu students and locked the gate from inside. In the event, the entire hostel was evacuated by the army and then left to the mob to loot and burn. The Hindu students were told they could take with them their books and research papers.

Dr Pande met a young DSc scholar, named Desai, who had left behind his more than three years' labour, a ready-for-typing dissertation, to be burnt by the arsonists. Desai said he couldn't think of saving his thesis while some of his Muslim friends were in similar position with their theses. A noble soul! Dr Pande who had been looking for humanity found it there as well. The inhumanity did not lie in the Indian nature, but the nature had fallen victim to the evil heritage of colonial history. Few realised how 1000 years of their history had been stolen from them. Many tended to buy the fake and doctored version handed down to them as part of their colonial heritage. Some even saw a little political advantage in this trade. Dr Pande heard a leadingHindu Mahasabha politician and religious leader, Mahant Digvijaynath, telling an election meeting that it is written in the Qur'an that killing a Hindu was an act of goodness (thawab). Dr Pande called upon the Mahant (High Priest) and told him that he had read the Qur'an a few times but didn't find such a statement in it, and he had, therefore, brought with him several English, Urdu and Hindi translations of the Qur'an; so would he kindly point to him where exactly did the statement occur in the Qur'an? Isn't it written there? said the Mahant. I haven't found it; if you have, please tell me, replied Dr Pande. Then what does it say? It speaks about love and brotherhood, about the oneness of mankind. What's jihad then? What is jizyah? How then India got partitioned? The Mahant went on asking, and Dr Pande kept on explaining, hoping the Mahant would correct himself. However, the Mahant's ideas were fixed, in prejudice and in ignorance. Dr Pande himself had been a senior member of the ruling Congress party which he had joined at a very young age. He was a disciple of Gandhi, a friend of Nehru; he had taken part in each and every non-cooperation movement against the British and gone to jail eight times. The Congress was supposed to be an all-Indian nationalist platform and yet Dr Pande's party was hardly free from the bias and ignorance of a cleverly deconstructed history.

The rise of militant Hindutva tendency is only recent, but before it all became overt, the Congress itself was doing the same, albeit a little covertly. All the horrific anti-Muslim carnage took place during more than four decades of Congress rule. The doors of the Babari Mosque were opened for Hindu worship during the tenure of Nehru's grandson, Rajiv Gandhi. The Mosque itself was pulled down during the regime of another Congress Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao. Dr Pande was, however, just one individual. That made his work all the more important, not just from the Muslim but from the point of view of the entire country. India's deconstructed history is like a time bomb; unless it is defused, India cannot survive in one piece. Not for very long.

Bishambhar Nath Pande born on 23 December 1906 in the Madhya Pradesh of Umreth; member UP Legislative Assembly (1952-53); member UP Legislative Council (1972-74); twice member of the upper house, Rajya Sabha (1976 and 1982); Governor of Orissa state (1983-88); recipient of the highest national award Padma Shri (1976); author of several books, including The Spirit of India and The Concise History of Congress; died in New Delhi, 1 June 1998.

INDIA has some real problems on hand

Have a look at the funeral procession of Abu Quasim a TOP LET Commander who was gunned down in Kashmir. A group of militants participated in funeral prayers of Lashkar commander Abu Qasim in south Kashmir and offered him a three-volley salute on Thursday.
Police sources and locals confirmed that militants participated in last rites of Abu Qasim at Bugam village in Kulgam district.
Amid massive pro-freedom sloganeering by mourners, the militants fired volleys in air to honor Qasim, they said.
Such honoring ceremonies were a routine during militant funerals in early '90s when armed insurgency was at its peak in Kashmir.
See the people who have thronged the funeral procession all Muslims showing a mind boggling solidarity with a top terrorist. It indicates the shape of things to come. 

The starting point of Terrorism is the assumption that violence is a virtue in itself and a powerful means to solve social or political problems. Terrorism can be healed only when such people understand the mistaken non logic of any ideology that inspires terrorism and incites to violence—and when they realize that going along with it can never get them anywhere. Until those ideologies’ errors and contradictions are revealed, all measures taken against terrorism can be short-term. Terrorism will emerge again, in different places and under different circumstances, behind a different mask. Unfortunately it is very difficult to change human perceptions upon which are based on the world view of individuals. Over a period of time these perceptions become beliefs and finally the absolute truths for individuals.

Importantly, the root cause for people to lean towards terrorism has to be eradicated. The prime cause which along with abject poverty is : Lack of Food and shelter, Lack of Financial and Physical Security,  Unfulfilled Social needs and Self Respect.  

The counter terror operations are now called as WAR ON TERRORISM. Instead these operations should be treated as a counter terrorism/counter insurgency. The implication is that WAR means indiscriminate force and counter insurgency would mean adequate force with little or no collateral damage. In addition the emphasis must be on isolating the terrorists/insurgents from their support base and NOT destruction of supporting people. 

An insurgent without the support of the local population is like a fish out of water. To achieve this we must also take advantage of political intervention and economic tools. Unfortunately as far as India is concerned, more than 50% politicians are criminals themselves, with charges as serious as murder, attempt to murder, extortion, dacoity and misappropriation of Government funds to the tune of crores of rupees.  to name a few. 

A year ago, in Goa, the local Muslims chased out a Maulavi from UP who began to preach hate in peaceful Goa! In the end community opinion is the best check on extremism-  either Christian, Hindu or Muslim. Insurgents or terrorists both attempt to gain the support of the local population through an appeal to an overarching ideology and by demonstrating their ability to overturn the status quo through violence. When the activity becomes worldwide we tend to call it as terrorism. It is definitely never an act of war.

While military action is necessary, it is not a sufficient condition for success. “A counter insurgency effort that does not respond to legitimate internal socio-political concerns and deals only with military capabilities is ultimately destined to fail.” There is also a risk that too much military action (particularly if it is indiscriminate) can be counterproductive. A theme running throughout discussions on counter insurgency operations is that “smaller may be better” when it comes to the actual employment of military forces.

Our PM and his misgovernment has really screwed up every where. On top of that the icing on the cake is, the babus are hell bent on alienating the Army from Government. I pity the future of this Nation our "Bharat Varsha" Bash on Mr. Modi figure out what more damage you can do to the fabric of this great country. Cast Cow communal divide, Army to the dogs so also the Veterans. Bash on Mr. Modi 3 cheers.

ON BEING A HINDU ANYWHERE IN THIS WORLD

Sometimes I did wonder why at school assembly I had to sing hymns in praise of the Lord. 
Praise my soul the king of heaven to his feet my tribute bring,
Ransomed healed restored forgiven (converted another meaning)
Who like me his praise should sing 
Praise him praise him 
Praise him Praise him
Praise the everlasting King......
Then end with prayers
Followed by
Our Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thine will be done etc etc....
ending with "Through Jesus Christ our Lord."

One day during divinity period ( in my times it was compulsory in our school later non Christians were not required to attend) I questioned my master why is salvation through only Jesus Christ alone? Why not through Mohammed? Or through our Sahastra kote hindu gods? 

The answer was 6 of the best at the end of the DIVINITY period. Mind you normally we used to be caned often in school, but the after divinity class caning's left us whimpering, like suddenly Jesus had blessed the Master with more strength in his Arms. At night we were afraid to show our stinging , red welted backsides to our parents as we were afraid we would be removed from our beloved "Bishops School". 

I am not ashamed to say that at a point in time we started looking down upon Hindu Gods and Goddesses as "what stupidity" How can some body be a vayu Putra (son borne by the wind) Agni Putra (borne of fire) Yet we never questioned and took it as gods own truth that Jesus was born of a Virgin. 

May be Christians know how to convert so smoothly that we never did realize what happened. Though luckily I was of a questioning bent of mind, in fact most of us were, so little damage was done. Yet the maximum damage which occurred was a loss of faith. We became atheists !!!! The author down below has written a very nice article and has subtley conveyed the inner anguish she feels at the situation today. Please do read.

Shared from Facebook.

Written by a lady named "Anurita Anupam" residing in London.

A must read for all INDIANS  : -

I am confused as a Hindu who wants to stay secular and each day this confusion increases……Yes I am born as a Hindu in India , went to a Christian school ….celebrated Diwali at home but Christmas in school with equal fervor. Visit to a Cathedral or hearing Bible verses never instilled any fear that my religion is at stake …because as a Hindu I am supposed to be secular and accept all religions.

In India its fashionable to be a secular Hindu….
But I really wonder aloud today, what would have been the reaction in media and our so called intellectuals if a school run by a Hindu trust or organization had opened a school amongst Christianity dominated area and had sung verses from Gita or Mahabharata!!! All hell would ha ve broken loose for sure.
14 years of education in a Christian run school did not make me a Christian ..I am still a Hindu but I have one more reason in my life to be happy when its Christmas …

As a Hindu if I can handle 33 crores of Gods and deities, I can definitely handle few more Gods and still be a Hindu…I don’t fear ..I am a Hindu …I imbibe ..i don’t run away ….but what am I supposed to do when I see my Muslim and Christian friends refusing Prasad/or rejecting getting a tilak done on their forehead…how many of Muslims and Christians have visited ..Vaishno Devi or Tirupati…

Now …just ask how many Hindus have visited Ajmer Sharif or Deva Shareef or Swarna Mandir or Cathedral. Is so called secularism, has to be only a Hindu’s responsibility !
If India has to be secular then state should not interfere with religion …but then why should my tax money has to go for Haj subsidy ..Is that not a special favour to one religion.This is my question …but as a Hindu am still confused….if just one Haj subsidy allows my Muslim brothers and sisters to be happy then am happy to still let them do it. I would love to hear stories of their trip ….am happy to say “Eid Mubarak”…I don’t fear because I am Hindu .

Why my so called intellectuals never blamed successive governments for allowing such communalism …why they never returned their awards ….
Why St Stefens in Delhi is allowed to give preference only to Christian candidates while hiring ……They exist on a piece of land which belongs to INDIA and not to Hindus, Christians or Muslims …then preference to anybody on the basis of religion is communalism and not secularism.

Why authors and scientists and people like Dibakar Bannerjee never protested against St Stefens ?

Currently am residing in a country which claims with pride that we are a Christian nation and the world media doesn’t target it at all. Britain easily refuses permission to create a Mosque higher than St Paul's Cathedral… A Mosque which will be built by their own citizens living and working in this country, but BBC doesn’t run a documentary on the plight of Muslims being tortured and not given equal rights in Britain !! They don’t get a lecture from Obama to embrace secularism as yet!!
However , in India I still don’t support demolishing a Mosque which was built by an Invader !! A nation with 80% of its population as Hindus has taken more than 60 years to built a Temple for their deity. As a Hindu I would still support a Temple and a Mosque together there …..rather than just a Temple …I don’t boast my religion ….. and I Don’t believe that I am the best…I believe that all are equal for I am a Hindu.

If my son has to marry a Christian girl tomorrow ..I will not ask the girl to convert…I have no such concept ..but my son will have to convert to Christianity just to marry the girl of his dreams ….is that not communalism which is openly being practiced by minorities in India ….!! If inter-caste marriages are supported then why not inter-religion ……let there be true secularism in India …..and not this blurred version of secularism, created by pseudo –intellectuals !!

I have no award to be given back …no talent to make a documentary or debate the issue on a TV channel. But my belief that God is one and all religions should be respected gets shaken everyday in my Mind….As a Hindu …am I being taught to stay oppressed in India ? Is that secularism??

I am a woman, a Hindu woman, who wants to teach her son to respect all religions …and want to tell him that if you light a candle in a Church, bow your head in a Mosque, do seva in a Gurudwara…. You will not cease to be Hindu …….for you are a Hindu and always will be a Hindu .You will never learn to fear .

Yes I am…… confused …..but I still don’t fear for I am a Hindu .I will not eat Beef but will not support a ban on it !! but please don’t mock my religious feeling by doing a Beef –Party just to mock me !! at least that much I can expect .

If you want to return your award then return it and say that you‘ll accept it back only when beef –ban is removed, haj subsidy is stopped, polygamy among muslims to be declared illegal, no special reservations for any minority in their institutions ...., triple Talaq to be stopped and no compulsion of change of religion in inter –religion marriages !!

Girish Karnad wants Bengaluru Airport named after Tipu Sultan...

People have lost their lives in the present over this naming/renaming shit. History will not be affected but our present sure is. What difference does it make if a road is called Jawaharlal Nehru Marg or a Tippu Sultan Marg or Dakshin 23 road? Or an airport as Bengaluru International or Tippu Sultan International or a whatever? I think we have more important and far reaching issues at hand which require more attention of this non governance Government and these so called luminaries of our August Societies. 

Left to me I would have named all Airports/Railway Stations after the cities/towns in which they exist. All roads by directions that is East/West/North/South with ascending or descending Numbers. I teach in a University and Colleges. In my discussion with future Generations I find their priorities totally different and rightly so. They don't give a damn as to what road or airport or garden or fly over or whatever is named after whom or what, as long as they have a road or a station or an airport in place as part of a well designed and well developed infrastructure. Who cares a shit. 

It is only those who are have beens, People/parties who are fond of being in the lime light and who are out of it now and cannot go gracefully into the sunset, try to rake up these non issues. These and other kinds of Dinosaurs are extinct. The sooner they realize this or are made to realize this fact the sooner can this Nation move on.

Over 1,200 Army officers refuse to give a day's salary to PM Relief Fund for J&K floods

Read more at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/49742212.cms?from=mdr&utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

Here we go again........Headlines for the prestitutes.
Babus would be more cunning they would not have allowed the exchequer to cut a days pay as donation to flood relief. No sir !! They would have said we will physically donate what ever we want to. Even if they had refused it would not have made headlines.
Every Indian thinks including the Government of the day and the Babus, that the meaning of discipline for the Indian Army is "Never protest even if your private life is trampled upon, your respect ground into the dust, you are made to suffer all indignities by making you do tasks which are not written in your service rules, your rights as a soldier are not respected and you should bend backwards at every occasion and situation though
un-warlike but likely to dishonor the nation."

Are we the Army the only people who have to bear the mantle of discipline? Why should Army Officers be forced to donate a days pay without consent, when donation by itself means voluntary? So also The Army Act does not over ride constitutional norms of right of freedom and dignity.
This is precisely where our learnt behavior requires to change or our dignity and self respect will get trampled at every nook and corner. Surely discipline under the Army Act does not include that.

I would say gone are the days when the Commanding Officer could get things done in the grey area between the Army Act and the Constitution of India, "Co Sahib ka hukum hai". Hence the new breed of Officer has to get savvy in Modern day Command and adjust to nuances which mean grey areas in the Infantry school Pamphlet on Leadership, issued to us during Junior Command Course and the Army of the future.
Many people think we are being mean minded, question here is all actions of the government and the polity are linked. If a soldier can lay down his life for an ungrateful government which declares on top of that "you are paid to die so what is the big deal?" A days pay in an officers or a jawans life is peanuts.
What the Government should understand and retrospect, "are the underlying feelings and unrest it has bred into the Army due to its stupid babus and self antics, without realizing the long term implications causing severe damage in the long term of the defense forces?".
Having said that I as a veteran do admit that personally 30 years ago, if a days or a weeks pay was cut for flood relief or what ever (which did happen at least 3-4 times), the thought of protesting would never have occurred to me. Possibly because my mind set was we are superior beings, so what if the Babus and the government shafts us at every corner. Typical attitudes drilled into Indian Officers of the British Army, which have become standards of indoctrination at all of the Training Institutes of the Indian Army.
Wake up friends times have changed, you cannot Command today's Army with the Manual of Military Law under one Arm and somebodys Annual Confidential Report under the other.

Col Ajay Ukidve(retired)

A Thought for you Mr. Narendra Modi from an old veteran.....

Being A Leader Requires Mr. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, that You Take A Stand For Something Bigger Than Yourself. Remember 2/Lt Arun Khetarpals and Capt Robin Thapars and their ilk of the Indian Army, who laid down their lives for their country? They were committed to something bigger than themselves, their "Motherland" unfortunately this motherland has been raped by its own keepers.

If you aspire to be a great leader Mr Prime Minister Narendra Modi, your life and your career or schooling and your relationships will have to be about something bigger than you, something bigger than your concerns for yourself – even bigger than the hopes, dreams, and grand ideas of the person you “wound up being”. And that surely includes something bigger than your dreams about your personal fame, position, authority, or money.

If your own hopes, dreams, and grand ideas for yourself, your personal fame, position, authority, or money or the person you “wound up being”is what is giving to making your being and action, you can forget about being a leader.

Are you a stand for something beyond yourself – something you are willing to give your life to Mr Modi? Without that, for you there will be no chance of greatness.

What is Being Committed to Something Bigger than Yourself Mr Modi?

1. What is it that you are committed to, or are thinking about (speculating about) being committed to, that is bigger than yourself. 

2. By bigger than yourself we mean beyond your personal concerns for yourself (beyond a direct personal payoff). 

3. Whatever it is that you are committed to that is something bigger than yourself in a certain sense defines who you are and characterizes your life.

4. The kind of commitment we are speaking about Mr. Modi (a commitment to something bigger than oneself) creates something to which others can also be committed and have the sense that their lives are about something bigger than themselves.

Being committed is evidenced by being:

1) passionate about what you are committed to, and
2) relentless in your pursuit of realizing it and
3) undaunted by breakdowns on the way to realizing it.
This is the standard against which you should be measuring your commitment Mr. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and nothing else.... Period.

So Mr. Prime Minister are you all this? No sir you do not even keep your word. OROP is a blazing example of your chicanery for your own political gains.

God save this nation from your likes.

Talking about Integrity Mr Prime Minister.

A thought for today on Integrity, this thought Mr. Prime Minister is for you and all your intellectually, ethically and emotionally corrupt coterie...........

The question is, in the matter of integrity what constitutes your word?

1. What You Said: Whatever you said you will do, or will not do (and in the case of do, doing it on time).
(Note: Requests of you become your word unless you have responded to them in a timely fashion.)

2. What You Know: Whatever you know to do, or know not to do, and if it is do, doing it as you know it is meant to be done (and doing it on time), unless you have explicitly said to the contrary.

3. What Is Expected: Whatever you are expected to do or not do (and in the case of do, doing it on time), unless you have explicitly said to the contrary.
(Note: What you expect of others is not for you their word – with others, you must make your expectations explicit in the form of a request.)

4. What You Say Is So: Whenever you have given your word to others as to the existence of some thing or some state of the world, your word includes being willing to be held accountable that the others would find your evidence makes what you have asserted valid for themselves.

5. Standing For Something: What you stand for – that is, what you say that your life is about and for what you can unquestionably be counted on – whether expressed in the form of a declaration made to one or more people, or even
to yourself, as well as what you allow people to believe that you stand for, is a part of your word.

6. Moral, Ethical, And Legal Standards: The moral, ethical, and legal standards which you have not explicitly declined are a part of your word.

Integrity Is Honoring Your Word, and Honoring Your Word Is

1. Keeping your word, and on time

OR:

2. Whenever you will not be keeping your word, just as soon as you become aware that you will not be keeping your word (including not keeping your word on time) saying to everyone impacted:
a. that you will not be keeping your word, and
b. that you will keep that word in the future, and by when, or, that you won’t be keeping that word at all, and
c. what you will do to deal with the impact on others of the failure to keep your word (or to keep it on time).

NOW MR PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT WE IN AND OUT OF THE ARMY UNDERSTAND BY THE WORD INTEGRITY ?

MR NARENDRA MODI YOU DID NOT KEEP YOUR WORD GIVEN TO THE VETERANS AS WELL AS THE SERVING SOLDIERS OF THE INDIAN DEFENSE FORCES ON OROP BEFORE ELECTIONS TO GARNER NEARLY 40000000 OF OUR VOTES (RETIRED AS WELL AS SERVING SOLDIERS AND THEIR FAMILIES) TO WIN YOUR PARTY ELECTION TO LEAD THIS NATION. THEREFORE QUESTIONS FOLLOW ABOUT YOUR BEING A LEADER AND A MAN OF INTEGRITY MR. MODI.

OROP Read this Mr. PM Narendra Modi.............

Read this Mr. PM Narendra Modi, If you have any shame you will act. A 22 year old officer of the second Battalion the Rajputana Rifles, kept his word of defending the Nation, the word he gave while passing out of the Portals of the Chetwood Hall of the Indian Military Academy Dehradun.

"The safety, honor and welfare of my country come first always and every time.
The honor, welfare and comfort of the men I command come next.
My own ease, comfort and safety come last, always and every time.
Jai Hind:

AND HE KEPT HIS WORD, AN ACT OF INTEGRITY MR. PRIME MINISTER TILL THE VERY END BEFORE FALLING PREY TO ENEMY BULLETS AT THE BATTLE OF THE KNOLL AT KARGIL.

DO YOU HAVE THE GUTS TO KEEP YOUR WORD MR MODI? LIKE THIS 22 YEAR OLD OFFICER CAPTAIN VIJAYANT THAPAR VIR CHAKRA OF THE 2 RAJPUTANA RIFLES ?
NO SIR YOU DON'T AS YOU HAVE AMPLY PROVED.

THIS BRAVE OFFICER MUST BE SQUIRMING IN HIS HEAVENLY ABODE AT THIS UNGRATEFUL NATION AND ITS UNGRATEFUL SPINELESS LEADERS.

His Fathers Tribute.

Son,
The brave way you left this world, at the age of 22 is a measure of how you lived your short life and what you valued. In meeting the stark challenges of capturing Knoll against all odds, during the battle of Three Pimples with heroic coolness and single minded devotion to duty, you have achieved immortal honor. In death you have epitomized the spirit of national pride - an honor which makes every sacrifice worthwhile. Your actions will forever inspire generations of Indians to come. You have left us with pride for being the parents of a worthy son and a lifetime of pain for having lost a child we loved.
-- Col. V.N. Thapar

Sometime before the final assault Capt. Vijyant Thapar VrC (Robin) left this letter at the form up place (FUP) of the attack area, to be handed over to his family in case he failed to return.

Dear Papa, Mama, Birdie and Granny,

1. By the time you get this letter I will be observing you all from the sky enjoying the hospitality of Apsaras.

2. I have no regrets. In fact when I become a human again I shall join the Army and fight for the Nation.

3. If you can please come and see where the Indian Army fought for your tomorrow.

4. As far as my unit is concerned the new chaps should be told about this sacrifice.

5. I hope my photo will be kept in the "A" Company Mandir with Karni Mata.

6. Whatever organ can be taken should be done.

7. Contribute some money to orphanage and continue giving 50/rs to Ruksana per month and meet Yogi Baba.

8. Best of luck to Birdie, never forget this sacrifice of these men. Papa you should feel proud, Mama so should you, meet (name deleted for privacy) (I loved her). Mamaji forgive me for anything wrong I did.

 Ok then it is time for me to join my clan of the Dirty Dozen. My Assault Party has 12 chaps.

Best of luck to you all.
Live life King Size
Yours
Robin

Vijyant moved to Dras with his unit under Col. M.B. Ravindernath, commanding officer, and his company commander Major Padmapani Acharya. 

The battalion was then given the task of capturing Tololing. Earlier attempts to capture Tololing by other units had failed with heavy losses. After the initial assault by Major Mohit Saxena was held up, on the night of 12 June 1999, Capt Vijayant Thapar led his platoon to capture a Pakistani post called Barbad Bunker. 

A photo in the newspapers shows him sitting with soldiers and captured arms that the fleeing enemy left behind. His letter after the battle describes the scene with dead Pakistani soldiers lying all around and his disappointment at not being able to catch two enemy soldiers alive.

After the victory at Tololing (termed as the turning point of the war), Vijyant was tasked to capture Three Pimples, Knoll in Black Rocks Complex, an ugly mountain sandwiched between Tololing and Tiger Hill. 

It was a full moon night and the enemy had good visibility. Moreover, this was an impregnable position to capture. The troops of 6 Northern Light Infantry (Pakistan) had all the advantages. Well entrenched in strongly prepared positions, well stocked and with only one narrow 'knife edge' ridge to cover, with precipitous slopes on both sides, and ravines thousands of feet deep, devoid of cover and almost vertical climbs at an altitude of 15000 ft and temperatures of -15 °C, it was indeed an impossible mission.

However, men of the unit were fired by the success at Tololing and were raging to go. The attack started with a fierce artillery barrage of a hundred guns, with Vijyant's platoon leading. The enemy responded with an equally intense and accurate bombardment on the attacking troops. In this artillery attack, Robin lost some of his men and some more were injured causing the attack to be disrupted. However with his indomitable spirit and tremendous urge to capture Knoll, he got together the remnants of his men and moved through a ravine and rejoined his company. In the melee earlier, Vijyant's platoon had gotten separated from his company. While the exchange of fierce fire was going on, Vijayant reached his company, which had already secured a small foothold on Knoll.

By this time, his company commander Major P. Acharya had been killed. At this news, Vijayant's anger was explosive. He surged ahead along the narrow ridge with his colleague Naik Tilak Singh. Both of them started engaging the enemy merely 15 m away. There were two enemy machine guns firing towards them. After about an hour and a half of fierce exchange of bullets and abuses, Vijyant decided that he had to finish the enemy. In a brief lull in firing he rushed ahead to do so but a burst of fire struck him on his head. He fell in the arms of his comrade Naik Tilak Singh. It was after that the men of his company charged and fully captured Knoll. That night had cost the Indian Army 3 officers killed, 3 severely injured, 10 ORs killed, and 42 wounded. All objectives were captured.

For this act of outstanding bravery and his ultimate sacrifice, Capt. Vijyant Thapar was awarded the Vir Chakra a gallantry award by the President of India, K. R. Naraynan, which was received by his 82-year-old grandmother. 

Shortly before he went into the attack, he wrote a last letter to his parents. This letter epitomizes the soldierly virtues of the Indian Army and shows the values of an inspired Indian. This has motivated a whole generation of Indian soldiers and youth alike. 

He was just 22 years old. Noida, his hometown, gave him a memorable farewell with about a hundred thousand people attending his last rites. The Army dedicated to him the helipad at Dras, which is known as Vijyant Helipad.

Vir Chakra Citation                                   On 28 June 1999 Captain Vijyant Thapar was commanding the Leading platoon of Alfa Company, which was tasked to assault area Knoll in Drass Sector from the north during Operation Vijay While advancing, the platoon was hit by accurate enemy artillery barrage and it suffered heavy casualties. Captain Thapar organized evacuation of the casualties and quickly rallied his shell-shocked platoon for the attack. Personally leading the attack from the Northern face against enemy's Medium Machine Gun fire, which was holding up the Company's assault, he fearlessly charged at the enemy position firing from the hip and throwing grenades. During this act, he was grievously injured in the hand and stomach but continued to advance ordering his men to follow him. Roused by the actions of their young Platoon Commander barely out of the Academy, the platoon charged up the hill against the dominating enemy position. This audacious action unnerved and forced the enemy to abandon a tactically superior position. The officer, however, succumbed to his injuries. Captain Vijyant Thapar, thus, displayed remarkable cool, raw courage and exemplary valor and made the supreme sacrifice while facing the enemy.

The place where Vijayant succumbed to enemy fire.A soldier from 2nd Rajputana Rifles marking the spot.

Mr Prime Minister it is time you kept your word or hung your head in shame for not keeping your word given to soldiers and veterans of the glorious Indian Defense  Forces, The Indian Army, The Indian Air Force and the Indian Navy. Mr Prime Minister keeping your word is the first and the last tenet of Integrity as we understand it Mr. Prime Minister Narendra Modiji. Mr. Prime Minister, Prime Ministers will come and go, but your crime of not keeping your given word to such a noble Army will be etched in black in the History of India.

Reminiscences......

 Today while disposing a lot of our packing trunks from my Army Service days, I came upon a very special trunk. I opened it with a lot of trepidation as to the conditions of the contents. It was marked Captain Ajay Ukidve box No 23 Enlarger. As I was opening it I hoped that mites would not have got to my enlarger which I had made, with my bare hands, out of wood, glue, screws, nut and bolts around 38 years ago. I still have the small planer in my tool cupboard which I had used to give it a good finish. The only thing I bought out right ready made, was the very expensive condenser lens, the enlarging easel and the photo paper trimmer. I used this enlarger extensively through out my service, as I recollect, up to the year 1987 to keep my hobby of photography alive. Thousands of black and white prints later it was dismantled and kept in box number 23 till today. One odd bathroom of our allotted Army Quarters would always be turned into a "Dark Room", our house would then often smell of metol and hydroquinone developers and the pungent smell of Hypo fixers (Sodium Thiosulphate).

In the late 70's one large A4 size black and white enlargement used to cost around 40 odd rupees, and an Agfa Pro Enlarger was priced at around Rs 8000, 6 times more than what I earned as my Army pay. With 2 small kids to look after it would never have been possible to seriously continue with my hobby . I had 2 cameras then, a Halina anstigmat 35mm and a Yashica Reflex 635. The former presented by my father on my 10th birthday and the latter bought second hand during College days before I joined the Indian Military Academy. Thereafter, post 1987 our pay improved a bit and things became more affordable. Today I have 2 Nikon D7100 bodies and about 7 assorted lenses the longest being the Tamron 150-600 birding lens. If you look at the light bulb housing (right on top) of the enlarger, you will see it is made of 2 stainless steel bowls from my wifee's kitchen at that time. She must still be wondering where the hell her utensils got to. I must say she has been a most cooperative person, never saying a word about such things. The Agfa enlarging easel I bought for Rs. 30, and a 14 inch guillotine paper cutter for Rs.25  from Indore. Plus dark Room developing and fixing trays and universal 35mm to 120 mm film developing tanks, along with a red light  constituted my dark room.

I opened the box and there was the thing in a disassembled state. As I could see it, white ants and termites had not got to it in the last 27 years or so. As I am not in the habit of looking at rear view mirrors of my life and live only for the today, I was about to give it away along with the trunks to the "kabadi" our local salvage man. There was my wife looking over my shoulders saying no don't. She added: I still remember the look of sheer joy on your face when you made the thing part by part day by day nearly 38 years ago. The amount of love and affection you had put in when you made it, it will be criminal to throw it away. I think let our children and grand kids see it around. It will motivate them to use their hands in this world of instant noodles, selfies, Whatsapp and Face Book and the like. Let them be motivated to experience the joy it brings to make something with your own bare hands, with dedication, patience and perseverance in this everything "instant world". So I assembled my enlarger today and found it still worked to perfection. So here is something motivating , full of joy and happiness from the mists of time......