Chief of Army Staff Gen V K Singh - A Veteran's Tribute - A Personal View by Dr Subhash Kapila

jun 3rd, 2012 CE

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On day 1 after his retirement the BEML Chief threatened Gen V K Singh with a defamation if he did not apologise for his remarks on the Tatra isue. Congress keeps its opponents busy with legal cases, CBI raids, income-tax demands etc. Is this a shape of things to come.

With his retirement one is forced to read stories in the media about the demilitarization of the Siachen Glacier. Hindustan Times Mumbai carried a front page story today on how keen the Pakis are to get us off Siachen. 

 

http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/papers51/paper5051.html

CHIEF OF ARMY STAFF GENERAL V K SINGH – A VETERAN’S TRIBUTE- A Personal View

By Dr Subhash Kapila 29/5/2012

“The present Chief will be going out on a moral high. Despite a massive slander campaign launched by the manufactured media and some inimical elements, his reputation as an incorruptible leader and professionally upright commander remains intact. Having faced the wrath of a corrupt, manipulated and prejudiced environment, he will be long remembered for his attempts at cleansing the system”---- Major General (Retd) Mrinal Suman, May 26 2012, in “Sword and Shield” 

Backed by nearly forty years of service in uniform, coupled with years of service as a military diplomat witnessing the workings of the US Army, British Army, Japanese Army and South Korean Army, a veteran’s tribute is in order to the outgoing Indian Army Chief of Army Staff, General V K Singh. This becomes necessary to dispel the haze of manufactured calumny that was let loose against General V K Singh in the wake of his filing the case in the Supreme Court on his age issue.

In this orchestrated campaign to belittle him for daring to step out of line, what stands obliterated are the tremendous and significant contributions made by General V. K Singh to the enhancement of the Indian Army profile in all dimensions.

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why gen v k singh was crucified [he refused to kowtow to the congress]

jun 3rd, 2012 CE

http://www.sify.com/news/vk-singh-the-man-who-was-slandered-for-defending-his-honour-news-columns-mgbniAegdie.html

silly man. didn't he know his job was to be an orderly to the nehru dynasty?

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temples are temples; dams are dams. sorry for any confusion. or, how nehruvian stalinism screwed us all.

jun 2nd, 2012

yeah, right. temples of modern india. 

a poignant essay on this poor santhal woman;

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article3480638.ece?homepage=true

budhni mejhan is a metaphor for how the nehruvian stalinists have raped and pillaged this country; and they continue to do so today (the most recent incarnation being the evil rasputins of the NAC).

Sometimes an innocuous request leads you to the past only to snake back

into the present as a story sounding like a sigh, waiting for more than 50
years to be told. Who was to know that a straightforward task of collecting
dry facts about a dam visited 54 years ago would bring me face-to-face with
the story of Budhni Mejhan, a Santhal tribal, whose life became a testament
to nation-building in a way that could never have been imagined; who lived
all her life like a pebble trapped under a huge boulder?
 
I chanced upon Budhni while ferreting out information about the Maithon dam
in Dhanbad district (Jharkhand) bordering West Bengal, which was a high
point of Surjit's itinerary. The third dam of the ambitious, multipurpose
DVC, established in 1948 on the lines of the Tennessee Valley Authority, it
had been inaugurated around the time of the schoolteachers' visit.
 
After Maithon I could have moved on to Surjit's next destination. However,
a predisposition to stray from the highways of search engines lured me
towards material on DVC's fourth dam at Panchet in Dhanbad district, near
its border with Purulia (West Bengal). The dam was built across the Damodar
river known as the ‘sorrow of Bengal.' Not only was this Rs.19 crore dam
DVC's biggest until then; its inauguration on December 6, 1959 had been
graced by Prime Minister Nehru himself.

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i am so glad kerala did not have any natural resources (okay, except water). otherwise the stalinists would have dug up the entire state. the one thing that we had, ilmenite/monazite sands, have been quietly shipped out by white countries for the thorium.

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does anybody know if the tennessee valley authority actually did any good? or was it a fool's errand like the army corps of engineers straightening out the rivers in the florida everglades and causing untold environmental damage? (they recently restored the old meanders of the rivers). it's not clear that the damodar valley corporation did any good.

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