Another Republic Day....
Time for yet another retrospective...
The youth of the nation is having the opportunities like never before.
Work hard...get into a premier management institute, preaching patriotism among other things in the group discussions and draw a 5 digit pay packet for practicing just the opposite!
We should have more such institutes......100s of them......
We have truly gone global, children in our schools have started shooting down those for whom they have developed a dislike.....thanks Bollywood....
The National Defence Academy, the premier training institute for future officers of the Indian Armed Forces had its lowest intake in many years;197, when the average intake is 300 per course.
We, Indians are becoming more and more peace loving.......
Hats off parents.....for bringing up children with a distinct dislike for the war games, non-virtual.
About Rs 8,200 is what a newly commissioned officer gets paid after four-and-a-half years of rigorous training and compare that to what Class 12 students who operate from the air conditioned call centers earn every month......patriotism won't bring you the luxuries in life.......the younger generation is clever enough.
In spite of all that, there are a few young men who think of the armed forces as their true calling. They just turn their back on the lucrative jobs, often defying their parents to undergo three years of training at the NDA to become officers and gentlemen.
Captain R Harshan, a member of the Indian Army's elite Special Forces unit was one such man, having had dropped out of his Engineering Degree course to join the NDA. He lost his life fighting terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir in March 2007, he was 25 years old.
His sad, yet proud Father receiving the Ashok Chakra, the nation's highest honour for gallantry in peacetime, was one of the most poignant scenes on this Republic Day.
Being Beardless in Malluland
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