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Let me give you an example.Sir,
That is definitely the job of a trained person to accompany the officer, I agree to that...I am not trained for that Sir, and that is why I was talking about the situation all through out the country, what about the officers posted in the cities??...will the officer require a help in feeding him or polishing his boot or serving his drink on a tray?...there must be a difference there sir isn't it??
Lt Gen HS Panag, (father of Gul Panag), who was a Bde Cdr when I was the Dy GOC, invited me for dinner in Bhopal when I had gone there.
He was the Corp Cdr.
He, his wife and his daughter, Gul was serving all of us who were having dinner at his place!
Army is not a 10 to 5 job.
Further, the army is very demanding in turnout and such things, which one can say are cosmetic. I believe a smartly turned out officer or a soldier instills pride that is demanding of the Army by the Nation.
It really does not matter if a person comes shabbily or in crisp uniform with shoes shining.
He could still be working at his job, even if he was shabby as the jawans on a railway station lying on the platform floor with rubber chappals on.
I am sure the sight of such slovenly attired jawans in crushed and filthy combat dress instills great pride in people of your ilk that the Armed Forces are fighting fit! And if officers too were dirty, slovenly attired and flithy, I think the country would rejoice!
Take up the case and demand that all should be filthy, dirty. slovenly and should wear rubber slippers!
I endorse the idea since upkeep of uniform and allied costs is too much of a burden mentally and financially!
You are right, why should a trained person offer a drink to the guest on a tray.
In fact, why not have a municipal sweeper, stinking to high heavens, and ofcourse on cash payment for the evening serve local brew in earthen ware discardable pot?
After all, it is not what one gives and who gives and instead what matter is the gesture of hospitality, right?
I also sometimes wonder why the President must live in such a Palace and with so many flunkeys bowing and cringing before him and so many fancily dressed ADCs from uniformed service.
Or why the VIPs whose lives are not even worth the cost of bullets that imagined terrorists would use to pump into them, have so many gun toting NSGs to pander to their imagined 'dangers'?
I also wonder why people like Katju say 'Sanjayji' using the honorific ji, when basically he is an overgrown, over indulged punk and a jailbird with little education, if indeed that is education!
It is like calling that Maoist who was killed as Kishenji.
I wonder what is this honorific 'ji' is all about?
Makes this honorific a wee bit cheap!
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