Story of a friend and inspiring person: Yoga teacher

Sometimes you meet some unusual people at unusual places and they mostly turn out to be very cool ones. In my life I have got very few people whom I can actually call as friends as I found them like needle in the haystack. This post is about a friend, a teacher and a person with many inspiring thoughts. In the era of stereotyping, it's often the case when a person can not be understood well because of the pre built images. When we hear the word Yoga teacher, image of a calm, silent and a person with always mature behaviour comes into mind. So when I first communicated with my yoga teacher first time, even I started to talk with such thoughts, after couple of conversations, that stereotype image has been broken (happily). The teacher is indeed very vibrant person, she has wide range of thoughts, can dance freely on any music, have great sense of bhakti and a critical thinker as well, has modern Indian outlook towards life and yet very grounded and yeah sometimes act like a teenager as well. So why the post? In recent times we have seen that voices are raised to see women beyond their physical appearances, to respect them for what they do and to be a person with whom they feel safe and can talk freely. The Yoga Teacher has inspired me on many such things. 

First thing I have learnt is to not to do stereotyping, understand the person, their outlooks and their thoughts, that's how you can see their different shades, sense of humour, discussions on wide range of topics can only happen in free, non judgemental environment only, so instead of labelling someone with typical identity, just give them the space to express themselves. 

Second thing I have learnt is something which is need of an hour as well, it's about not to see the length of clothes but to see how the person carries it, vulgarity can be seen in full clothes and in the eyes of those who have no shame so rather than judging someone based on their choice of clothes, let's understand them as individuals and keep focused on own's business. 

Third and important point, it's useless to try to understand the mood swings of a female, so just be calm, don't argue much and let them command the dialogue in such situation, that will help many, trust me. 

All my readers, females do share how much difficulty you still find in expressing yourselves, and males, what's your level of understanding that women are much more than just a point of physical attraction? What stops you to enjoy their great sense of humour and their experiences rather than just staring at their physical appearance?

25 years of Kargil war: Have we changed?

It's 25th year of Kargil Vijay, yes we celebrate it but tough questions have been put under the carpet. What was our intellegence apparatus doing? How come such big movement from enemy has not been came to notice? And many such more questions, which are never answered and no one ever been made accountable for that. Now it's matter of past so it's time to see is there any change in terms of weapons, strategy and approach of leadership?

1. Weapons: While present political leadership pushing hard for make in India weapons and that's also good but somehow there seems lack of coordination between forces and manufacturing agencies. In Drone tech we are still far behind many small nations, we still don't have our own engine for fighter jets (which is also hurting our MK 1A delivery schedule thanks to dependency on GE), strength of airforce is depleting and no visible relief on horizon. Issue is babudom and expecting everything from homegrown platforms and buying average from West mentality by leadership of forces in some case. So what's the solution? Go with private players, they have rigid setup of performance and may speed up the things compared to Babu based govt systems. Promote R&D culture from schooling, which will give technical experts. 

2. Strategy: Appointment of CDS to convert current mechanism into theater command is a good step. Wish to see that becoming reality very soon. Apart from that, random strikes by unknown gunman, constant news of various ethnic groups in enemy nation are striking their forces sounds a good way to give them back their own venom. Only concern is the way forces are dealing the OGW mechanism in valley, what Major Gogoi and Col Acharya did were best steps to create fear amongst those who want to do any mischief, sadly such officers getting punished gives a wrong messaging and increases moral of the enemy. Solution is only one, crush the enemy before it becomes threat. 

3. Approach of leadership: Present leadership has definitely went ahead and called for surgical strikes and air strike but post 2019, no terror attacks has been avenged in that manner. This trying to be Gandhi mentality across the leaderships of political parties is something which kept India as reactive nation. When we know that Pakistani army is giving training to terrorists, when we know that where their launchpads are, when we have killing machines like Apache, Brahmos and Rafale, what stops us to strike? Why we let the terrorists infiltrate and to engage with our forces and let them do the damage to us? Each soldier lost fighting against terrorists is a big loss for the nation and yet we just go with traditional measures and risking lives of our brave soldiers, this needs to change. We must remember that MKG is no one, we are descendants of Shri Ram who went all the way to Lanka to fight against Ravan, we are descendants of Shri Krishna who destroyed Shishupal after tolerating 100 abuses, we are descendants of Bappa Rawal who made Bin quasim to run away and ensured that no attacks for coming 200 years, we are descendants of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj who ignited the flame of Hindavi Swaraj during the dark times of Mughal era, we are descendants of Raj Raja Chola who expanded the empire beyond seas, we are descendants of Lachit Borphukan who never let Mughals to set their feet on lands of Ahoms, we love peace but we are worshippers of Shakti. I request leadership to stop creating false narrative of ahimsa, our Gods and our ancestors have faught for Dharma and for the truth and shall we also.

My naman to all the veer jawans of our forces who gave balidan to make enemy run for their lives and made sure that they can not get hold of our territory. Those young souls who never made it back to their homes, the families which still waits for their sons to come back, we are indebted to them forever. I wish that if any war happens now, it will be fought at the area of enemy, not ours. Jai Hind.