colls says:

NAMESTE

I always say

GUFTA GU

for life long must stay

and

all should pray

they benefit from Sir you

day by day

what else can I say
a small
Canadian poet today

PROUD OF BEING
CSM OF EASY SQN
15TH COURSE

SOME DECADES AWAY

HOW LONG
WOULD YOU WISH ME TO STAY
i will follow your PATH WAY

K.L.Khanna says:

Dear sir; With a stray entry by a friend on my Facebook timeline, I came to know about Lt. Gen. Hanut Singh. When I wished to know further about venerable General, I got on to your piece on him in the net; and am delighted to know about this blog. With a bit of parochial sense and nostalgia I wish to write this comment as I too have lived in Yamunanagar where my parents lived and where I studied. My father was in EME and I grew up in different cantonments like Dehradoon, Jalandhar, Pune, Jammu and Delhi; but he settled in Yamunanagar. I joined the Indian Air Force in 1969. With a combination of my adolescent perception of the Army and an adult one of the Air Force, I find it very attractive to say that the individual life in uniform and the social one in the hedges provides one of a larger vision of India. Cantonment life provides one an opportunity to be large..; that is large to receive, retain and assimilate cultural and social spread of the entire country. Guftagu among the people in a cantt. is most enlightening and heartening where it easily crosses ethnocentric borders and finds an ease of a good dialogue. Thanks to this assimilative nature, perhaps that a fauji is regarded high in each rung of every community in the country. Fauj, it seems teaches its members, I think more than other professions do in a small time. There is a talk about compulsory service in uniform for every aspirant of government servant. I think, the government will do well in creating that opportunity for the young people. I know for certain, that a stint in uniform for a large section of Indian youth would do the cause of national integration, discipline and patriotism more than any number of slogans and media homilies. As we all know, good citizenship; a very urgent demand of our polity, civics and progress; emanates out of a combination of awareness and discipline, and what can generate such forces in our society than the new phase of such a wonderful opportunity for our youth in the present and those of future, than a rub in the uniform like a medal in everybody’s life in a nation!! Perhaps, this is one subject that should be taken up for discussion more than frequently in our media. Thanks for this space, sir.

colls says:

SOME ERROR TOOK PLACE I GOT UNSUBSCRIBED REENETER PLEASE AND KHUSWANT SINGH WAS BORN IN 1914

Sanjay Jadhav says:

I read book Bandicoot Run when I was in college 25 years ago. I can say it was brilliantly written book with vivid description of character. That Major Garud, the KYT Nadkar bootlegging the truckload of liquors from Chakreef rifles, the General of Pakistan Army trying to steal the records from Indian Army. It is fantastic thriller.