pride

All uniformed services want to glorify themselves. The outside society is much misinformed about these services and harbor very high opinions. Image building is a must. After every war many movies come out. After World War II, many action movies were released such as Pearl harbor, Battle of Bulge, Bridge on the river quoi and many more. The valor of the soldiers was highly glorified. In India too, many action movies were made glorifying army and the heroes. Pictures like Haqueekat ( Facts ), Ham Dono ( We too) were the movies with army back ground released many years ago. Then came recent action movies where young army officers are glorified by actions and patriotic fervor. Similarly police films are also made with a stubborn and honest police man. Most of them are IPS men or women who single handedly fights all goons and the political leadership in the country. The guy or woman with a 9 mm magazine pistol (browning) kills scores without reloading and never misses the mark. The woman police officer kills all goons and single handedly fights scores of musclemen. Foolish Indians seek pleasures out of this mockery called Indian films.

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Other day, I was talking to a friend over phone who served with me in a Battalion probably nearly thirty years ago. After few minutes, I learnt that one of my colleagues a major those days passed away few years ago. I think he reached the rank of only major when he suddenly died. I felt very sad to hear the news. He was a jolly guy going easy and jovial too. This guy was in the Head Quarters as the technical officer preparing various reports and returns and was taking care of the technical cell at the battalion Head Quarters. The commanding officer (CO) was a staff college type from Wellington. This is not Wellington of UK. This is at Nilgiris in South India. Some officers of all services, who are interested, go for a course at Staff College after getting through a stiff competition. Thus, these officers consider themselves as elite group within services and some of them suffer from a misplaced phobia.

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