The Victim Card

Captain Mandeep Singh was martyred while providing security to the Amarnath Yatra pilgrims.
He was killed by militants in the Kupwara district of J&K. Now, it is very much possible that these militants were not Pakistanis, they could be just members of the Azadi Brigade of Kashmiri or could even be innocent children of village school headmaster.
Yes, Gurmehar Kaur is right- PAKISTAN DIDN'T ("might not have") killed her father.

But but.. This is exactly where our media failed us.
Mandeep Singh never got prime time shows dedicated to him, never was in the news and headlines of National newspapers for so many days.
The same media which portrays Burhan Wani as innocent and Gurmehar Kaur as a victim of right-wing trolls never made stories when her father became a victim of these militants.

Dear Gurmehar Kaur,  India has never been at war with PAKISTAN. We merely respond to their attacks. If India was at war, Lahore would have been a part of India by now. These big mediahouses are supporting you only because you serve their narrative. You are just a pawn in their bloody game.

#JAYHIND

LECTURE BY THE PVC, HON. CAPTAIN BANA SINGH

Attended the lecture delivered by the respected PVC, Hon Capt Bana Singh in Vadodara today and got to learn something very important-
1. IN PANICK, DO NOT OVERTHINK AND OVER ANALYSE-
 While his paltan were climbing the highest peak of Siachen to fight the Pakistanis who had captured the peak by deceit and had a strategic advantage due to height, they had to fight not just the enemy but also the snow storm and bone freezing -45 degree temperature. Breathing was like an exercise and even though they moved with all determination, they could only climb 150 metres in 8 hours. At that time he said, the most important thing was- to not overthink about the situation. Because once you start to over-analyse the situation, sometimes you tend to lose focus and are not thinking in the moment which is very crucial.

2. STAY GROUNDED ALL THE TIME-
He was so down to earth that he rejected the offers of land and petrolpump made by the various state governments after he was conferred India's highest military award- Param Vir Chakra. He urged the people to not consider him as some kind of a hero but just a dutiful soldier who was lucky to accomplish the mission he was given. Such a humble man.

People like Captain Bana Singh are the real heroes of the nation..

Today, Bana Top, named after Bana Singh is the highest point of the highest battlefield in the world, Siachen.
#RememberTheBrave
#JayHind

THE PARROT AND THE VULTURE.

THE PARROT AND THE VULTURE.

Once upon a time a group of hunters went to a forest. They captured a vulture and a parrot and brought them to the village.
One of the hunters took away the parrot and the other took away the vulture.
Upon going home, the first hunter put the parrot in a cage made of light steel with small grills.
The second hunter put the vulture in a strong iron cage which had bars in its walls.

Once the parrot woke up to consciousness he was saddened to see himself trapped in a cage. It was the first time he had seen the cage though he had heard about it from some of his forest friends. He remembered even his friend, the vulture had been captured by the hunters.
The parrot banged the cage with all his might but the cage didn't bend or break. He thought to himself, "Oh. How lucky the vulture is. He would have easily broken the cage by now and be back in the forest."


The vulture on the other side woke up to see himself trapped in a strong iron cage with bars.
However he noticed there were small gaps between the bars and he thought he could try escaping.
With all his might, he tried to escape through but his giant body and wings came in the way.
He thought to himself, "How lucky the parrot is. He has a smaller body and he would have easily maneuvered his way out and be back in the forest by now."

Both, the parrot and the vulture sat defeated in their respective cages thinking wistfully and cursing their bodies.
However what they didn't realize was- the hunters had by mistake not bolted the door of the cage. With little more brain and little more effort, both could have escaped.
The parrot and the vulture didn't realize that their cages were made differently.


This is what happens to us too.
We curse and crib ourselves and our shortcomings and keep comparing ourselves with others thinking each of us has similar problems. On the contrary the fact is each of us has different obstacles because we are made differently..
A soldier in Rajasthan never suffers from frost bite and a soldier in Siachen never suffers from heat stroke.

There are problems which are unique to each of us. So, what are we going to do- just sit sullenly cursing ourselves or try and explore ways to come out of our cage?

As Franklin D. Roosevelt said-
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."

~ Devashish Palkar