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	<description>A Blog of Major General Surjit Singh (Retd)</description>
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		<title>Wages down the Ages</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 09:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Surjit Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cover Note Text Text &#160; Download PDF Version (15 MB) Book-Wages down the ages by Maj Gen Surjit Singh]]></description>
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		<title>VARIABLE  STABILITY  FLIGHT  SIMULATOR -By Joseph Thomas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 06:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Surjit Singh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VARIABLE  STABILITY  FLIGHT  SIMULATOR -By Joseph Thomas Air Mshl P Rajkumar and Gp Capt Deepak Narayanan flying the Nubratron VSFS   In 1947, India and Japan were the only two Asian countries with an aviation industry.  Since then, we have progressed in absolute terms but have lagged behind in some areas, particularly in aeroengines and transport aircraft.  We spend lakhs ...]]></description>
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		<title>LANDING AT SRINAGAR AIRPORT 10 SEP 1999 By Col (Dr) S S Malik</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 08:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Surjit Singh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nostalgia... Going down the Memory Lane]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Preface The Kargil War of 1999 remains etched in the collective memory of our nation as a defining moment of courage, sacrifice, and unwavering resolve. Among the countless stories of bravery and service that emerged from that time, some are quietly powerful—woven not with dramatic headlines but with personal reflections, real emotion, and lived experience. This narrative by Col ...]]></description>
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		<title>ME AND MY NAVIGATOR- By Kapil Aggarwal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Surjit Singh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For a Smile and Amusement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the outset, let me state that this is not a narration of my exploits in some Himalayan Car Rally or a cross country adventure in deep deserts and high mountains which require a skilled Navigator to complement the driver. I have done nothing of that kind, in my life, having been involved in only mundane activities, unless mandated by ...]]></description>
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		<title>ASCENDING THE PAY SUMMIT : COLs &amp; BRIGs By Lt Gen KK Aggarwal, AVSM, SM, VSM (Veteran)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 06:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Surjit Singh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Of Soldiers and Soldiering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PROLOGUE ( By Surjit) Kapil Aggarwal has sent in a well-researched paper on how the current pay matrix for defence officers was crafted during the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission. It answers many queries which some of us had. However, before going through the document, it would be useful to recollect the pay matrix as it was about forty ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bhai Hira Singh of Farooka, Distt. Sargodha</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Surjit Singh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Reflections, Abstractions & Historical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Intro TExt go here &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Text TExt &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Garrison  Churches</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2023 06:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Garrison  Churches &#160; The British built garrison churches in the Cantonments that they established in various parts of India. In 1947 they were handed over along with everything else in the Cantonments.  The process was not difficult because an Interim Government had been formed in 1946 itself.  Moreover, the Chiefs of the Army, Navy and Air Force continued to be ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Soldier Undraped &#8211; Story of Late Col Satya Kumar Kohli,  pen named Colls</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 14:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Surjit Singh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Obituaries and Remembrances]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  FOREWORD, by Wg Cdr J Thomas, VM (veteran)   Colls was our Cadet Sergeant Major in our second term at NDA.  A  fine cadet and senior, he maintained discipline without  indulging in ragging or making our life miserable.  I do remember a few occasions when we lifted our cycles above our heads.  But that was good exercise.  The only ...]]></description>
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		<title>DIVINE FORGIVENESS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2023 05:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Surjit Singh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nostalgia... Going down the Memory Lane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obituaries and Remembrances]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our parents, whom we addressed as ‘Pitaji’ and ‘Jhaiji’ were a study in contrast. Pitaji was a man in a hurry, forever chasing his self-assigned goals and objectives. He was an intense person: focused to the point of being ambitious. He was an achiever, in every sense of the term. Jhaiji, on the other hand was laid back, relaxed and ...]]></description>
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		<title>YEH DOSTI…HAM NAHIN TODENGE!</title>
		<link>https://amolak.in/web/yeh-dostiham-nahin-todenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2023 15:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Surjit Singh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Of Soldiers and Soldiering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reflections, Abstractions & Historical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  A Jubilee Studded with Diamonds 10th December 1962 was a historic day for the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. It was the date on which the President’s Colours were presented to the Academy and the illustrious personality who presided over the ceremony was Dr S Radhakrishnan who needs no introduction. The 30th regular course passed out during the parade and ...]]></description>
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