Visit of Cdr Pathak / Gp capt Pathak and Brig S Luktuke

Dear Sudheer

Thanks a lot once gain for all that you and your team did and arrangements for us during the visit.

We reached this evening safely.

I can not close this mail without personally thanking Mrs Kumar for the excellent food that she served us the first day.It was all the more tasteful and it was so very Maharashtrian. Those Bharli Wangi were just to good.Thanks.

Can you kindly send me the email contacts of Varangaon team.Also the photos a few selected one's by email please.

In the meantime pls convey my and the teams sincere thanks to the Varangaon team for their spirit and the enthusiasm in general and their concern to be of help to the Veterans.This was our first experience of this kind so far.


Brgds

Pathak

SECY ESW TO RETIRE ON 31 AUG 2011

NEWS ITEM: SECY ESW TO RETIRE ON 31 AUG 2011

Ms. Neelam Nath to retire on August 31



Ms. Neelam Nath Secretary Ex Servicemen Welfare in the GOI is going to retire on August 31, 2011. She is an IAS officer of 1975 batch who belongs to the Jharkhand cadre.

LIEUTENANT : DID YOU DIE IN VAIN? By Sarvar Bali d/o Brig Pradeep Bali

LIEUTENANT : DID YOU DIE IN VAIN? Aug 24 2011
A friend from my organisation of yesteryears, Brigadier Pradeep Bali, sent me this piece written by his young daughter, Sarvar Bali. It is pathetic while the nation was engrossed in fighting the wrong-doings of our powers that be... our young ones were laying down their lives unheard, uncared and unsung on the borders. While our soldiers lay down their lives to protect their mother India, her better placed sons are robing her off not only her riches but also her chastity. This young girl, Sarvar Bali, has beautifully penned this piece on youngman's sacrifice in GUREJ SECTOR of KASHMIR on August 20, 2011. What a sad thing while soldiers are laying down lives, the GOI is concentrated on immunising its Prime Minister from investigations on charges of corruption.
Read on...click here
Note
This piece was written by a young Girl, SARVAR BALI, daughter of a serving Brigadier of Indian Army Brig Pradeep Bali.
The girl is barely out of the college, LSR of New Delhi, after graduating in journalism. I believe some corrupted versions of this are available on other various sites on the web where the site owners have not given the credit to this young girl. And some therefore do doubt the authenticity of this authorship and the story. This note is to dispel this doubt.