Another example of media hype at Masters

Reference is to the winner Scottie Schefler’s claim before Tournament started that were his wife to go into labour, he would abandon the Masters and hold his wife’s hand

A record when viewed from the perspective of Tiger Woods having won the Green Jacket five times.

The distance between truth & falsehoods of uncritical media

Every year it performs the same TW pantomime act

Tiger alleged he had come to win the Masters but finished last, 27 strokes behind winner

In cricket, it would be a ‘double innings’ defeat

Put together with nuts, screws and bolts due to follies his own, Tiger Woods started the Masters week with the pompous claim that he had “come to win it”. Some players and the media lapped it up and turned on the volume in the ‘orchestrated TW echo chamber’.

Vikram Jit Singh Reality sometimes is stranger than fiction…. I too fell off from a cliff in Machhil sect…. Luckily survived with few broken bones & and massive bruise, running from neck to hip. Never experienced a terrain more scarier than machhil.

As the widow of Rifleman Kripal Singh, 17 Garh Rif, Kargil, Vimla Devi, remarked:

'It is only when I commence my own journey to the shamshan ghat, will memories of him extinguish'

A plunge off the cliffs of anonymity

Maj. Ritesh Sharma, 17 Jat, wounded Kargil, coy taken charge by Capt Anuj Nayar, MVC-P

Just after Kargil, 17 J moved to Machhil LoC as part of Corps Reserve, Maj Sharma fell, died

Death was a small news. I spoke to Corps Cdr, did this story

The worst fear of soldiers

Is to die unsung by plunging off cliff on patrol / assault

Prefer bullet / shell

Today is 5th anniversary of plunge death of Maj. Vikas Singh, Machhil, 53 Inf Bde sector

During Kargil, Maj Manoj Talwar, & just after, Maj Ritesh Sharma, died same way

It doesn’t matter how
Let petals scatter now

(Poppies spill from a vase, writer’s garden, Chandigarh)

Poppy petals keep falling on my silence

If one loves silence, let nothing disturb the hush except the sounds of poppy petals scattering from a vase in the living room, their fall does enthrall the poetic muse in colours so loud and notes so soft

(Attached pic & text: vjs)

Handmaidens at the glass door

A wonderful spectacle of Nature at the doorstep

Wasp moths or Handmaiden moths photographed on a glass door of a shop. They were perched for hours.

But why are they lent the common name of Handmaiden moths?

Poppies in bloom attract bees and hoverflies

Their buzz is a hymn to nature

Confusion between the two insects as they look similar

Similarly, confusion between ornamental poppies seen in gardens and the Opium poppy. There are more than 250 poppy species globally

Vikram Jit Singh The choice should be left to the widow sir. But our so called vibrant society frowns upon this topic. If it’s widower remarrying it’s acceptable to the majority, and if a widow is intending to re marry or even hints of it, then all hell breaks loose

Society should shed its taboos and outdated norms, and encourage widow remarriage. Very unfair on a lady doomed to suffering silently from such a young age, for no fault of her’s

Vikram Jit Singh Tamizh film industry is releasing a movie Titled Amaran starring Tamil actors Sivakarthikeyan and Sai pallavi, based on the officer’s life.

a romantic, a poet-warrior

The widow and daughter of Maj M. Varadarajan, AC-P, 44 RR. Arshea was just 3 when her father laid down his life.

(Pic courtesy: Facebook page of Indhu Rebecca Varghese)

Those who live & remember bear greatest sorrows, & embody a different valour. Those who have gone defending India, do so in a flash of pain, in an explosion of glory. Families bear for lifetime shrapnel lodged in their soul, that time (that quack, healer physician) cannot extract