kargil::from mouth of a soldier

Another train journey and here I am with another varied experience. Na its not about poor people this time .Its about the people who fight for you, its about people who lay their life for you and you don’t even know them, its about people who risk their life every time so that you can live safely in your home, its about the people who don’t get to see their families or celebrate festivals with them are they not privileged enough??? Na it’s not about privilege. Maybe they are the luckiest people around because they are serving their Motherland. No marks for guessing now, ya it’s about our soldiers who are there fighting for us at the border, keeping vigil. There are those bodos in Assam with their deadly traps , the naxals in Andhra , and pak funded terrorists in J&K .If it hadn’t been for such a strong army India would have dissolved into small states a long time ago .

I met this person oh I must correct myself , I met this soldier belonging to 4th Para Jumpers at delhi .He was traveling to Agra. In a free wheeling conversation between my friend ,myself and this jawan this is what I gotta hear and conclude ::

The guy belonged to himachal , ok you can accuse me of being a state chauvinist but this conversation owe its origin to the fact that three of us belonged to same state , anyways moving further . I was not much interested about this guy and went to my berth in the coach but when the topic of kargil came about I was forced to stand up and listen . The soldier said

“ Before this we have only seen wars in many films but it was Kargil which gave us an opportunity to fight one. We were told that it was a normal jump and air lifted from Agra. Some of people did not have their lunch too but soon they realized it was not normal jump as they were no parachutes around , it was time for Action .”

Now what the hell was Indian Army thinking , how can they lift soldiers up without telling them where they are going , the people landed in Srinagar an hour and half later.

These people were not allowed to leave the premises of the airport and same place where food for 500 people was used for cooking food for 3000 people. There was a fracas for food , with people josting for a single munch , anyways it was time of war and I guess the people had no other option but too satiate their hunger by tasting blood rather then food.
After food these people were given dress and ammunition , mainly a gun and a bag weighing 25kgs containing first aid, some pills of vitamins .

When I asked him about how many days you can survive in these pills in their bag he said

“ two days . and added that their task was to relieve the jawans of Rajputana Rifles (who were fighting in the peaks ) , they were to supply them with ammo,food and medicines and fight and go further top of the hill and try to capture the peak .

The Strategy was simple :

WE were divided into buddy pairs the mantra was “ Survival . chahe job hi hoo jaaye saathi ki jaan naa jaane paaye.”

and their order was to kill the enemy and capture the peak at all costs . The enemy he said mainly were jawans of Pakistan . now all of us knew that first casualty of Kargil War was Amol Kalia and then Saurabh Kalia respectively , from the body of Saurabh Kalia eight kgs of nails were recovered , he quipped . Saying that every pore in his body had a nail hammered into it. All his nails were ripped off .

Then he told about his own role telling us that he fought for 52 days , supplying soldiers with medicines ,ammo and battling enemy . He said for four days continuously at a strech he had no food , One incident he told about was how he gave water to a Pakistani soldier who fell to his feet begging . Humanity does exist in that battlefield as well where you can fell prey to that hungry bullet searching for your body anytime .

Bofors ::

Controversy or no controversy bofors did the job for us ,told the Jawan. He said that it shook everything each and every bunker of the enemy .
Speaking of bunkers he said that the enemy made permanent cemented bunkers on the top of peaks and filled them with ammunition which could last years . They had even captured schools in some locations . The air force he said was helpful but never had much accuracy.

When I reached home I had beard, my face was chaffed, hair was sticky as resembled that of a sadhu , and my body stinked told the jawan .

Some Serious Stuff

Ok people , i told some of you that i work as a free lancer for a site , well many of you asked me to show what i write to get paid. Well money mor me never mattered its just 40 buks for a post but its the feeling you get when one of the peices you write is selected by the editors . I do this for creative gratification non the less ,its gotta be done seriously else the post is rejected here comes one of my recent posts which was accepted by the editors of the site ::


World oil production peaked in 2006 and is likely to reduce to half of current production in 2030 . Peak Oil represents the situation when amount of oil that can be extracted in a year begins to decline , because geological limitations are reached. Digging up of oil becomes more and more difficult ,so the costs increase and oil production decreases.

This decline in production is due to reduction of pressure in the oil fields. This reduction in pressure takes place as we drill oil. It becomes necessary to inject gases in the oil wells to increase pressure. Finally, even when this ceases to keep up the production oil is pumped up at a slow rate.

Germany based Energy Watch Group , an association of scientists and parliamentarians released a report titled Crude Oil: The Supply Outlook, in which it is concluded that oil production peaked at 81 million barrels a day r Mb/d in 2006 , much earlier than most experts had forecast.
The report which comes only a few days after global oil production hit a record high , has
also predicted that global oil production will fall several per cent each year and by mid 2030 it will be 39 Mb/d.

Hans-Josef,the group's founder and German Mp,told

The world soon will not be able to produce all the oil it needs as demand is rising while supply is falling. This is a huge problem for the world economy.

This report is in sharp contrast to International Energy Agency's remarks which denies that such essential changes are going to happen in the near mid-term future.

The report said that IEA's message that business as usual will be possible in near future is not reflecting the true state of affairs .

Just Life

Two and a half years are over , just one & half more and i will be out of college . Ready to take on the World , a computer engineer ...... I dont know who deserves the degree me or my parents who are really paying huge bucks to see me as an Engineer . Coming back to college ya i can still remember distinctly the first day , when i got up and went to temple and then started on this journey . Seems like yesterday , when i had to wish everybody , and look at the irony the same place i am sitting down and writing this peice ,i was ragged ,not ferociously but yes i was ragged .

Then came that Great War of first sem , and it was over soon . I have enetered the second , and had a wake up call when my roomie decided to shift his room , SO i shifted my Hostel to H -4 . Secod sem was masti time never touchedmy books still remeber that black friday when this Prof caught me copying and assigned me a D grade , tha grade will be in my grade sheet forever . Anyways third sem came ......
more on this later
A fitting reply to my infirmity , anyways moving on i had a new partner

Thoughts

I think ,you think and will all think i also thought and these are my thoughts . I dont know about you but i like ths poem , again composed when i was ill ... and taking a holiday



I thought you and me ,
together we had a future,
little did i knew
that the present would betray me
when i found you ,
i thought i found someone ,
different from everyother one

hurt i am now to realise ,
you can never be that "special one "
i thought tomorrow belonged to you and me,
pained i am to know that we couldnt even survive today's Melee
And i know its not your fault ,
but can't blame myself either ....
after i met you i thought,
" that never ending "search has finally ended ,
who was i to know?
that i stand to lose ,
the mental peace and contenment
i had earlier

The enemy Lies WITHIN

hmm here i go again after everything that has happened and a sleepy september october so far has been full of hope and joy , anyways i had thid disease in which there was water in my left lung . I had to go to Delhi to get this stuff out anyways i m fine now and back to work but i felt so miserable and helpless sometimes so this is what i wrote in that not so good times

you can fightand defeat
anyone you can see
but what will you do
when the enemy lies within
you can crush
and slay the beast
which exists on the outside
but what will you do when the enemy lies within
Slowly and silently this enemy goes to work
and before you can even know
this enemy has given you a deadly blow
you can cry,
no matter how much you try ,
this enemy does not stop agonisingly it goes on and on and on
There is no escapeyou can't run and you can't hide,
from this enemy which is no where in your sight ,
wherever you go this enemy goes with you
whatever you do you can't escape
The Enemy which Lies Within

A little humour

I was ill recently so i just realised that in india you are allowed to fall ill if you are rich ,
well i fell ill recently and i am waiting to get rich ...

anyways here is a not so humorous poem ...

I am sitting in a temple,
prayin with my eyes closed ,
still i am anxious aboutr my troubles ,
all this makes me question as to why i came here ??

I am sitting in a temple,
with questions for which i have no answer,
but i am afraid of asking d same to d almighty

I am sitting in a temple ,
stunned and hurt by the way this world works ,
but deep inside i have faith that one who made us all will see us through ...

False Alram

All those who read my last post must have thought that i am back and were eagerly wanting me to write a post real soon but that was nott possible , Just when i thought that i was alright and back to bussiness the doc had some real bad news in store anyways i m fine now and this time even the doctor thinks so .

My illness made me visit delhi and i have a lot to say about my visit . First of all , everyone of us should thank god that we are all fit and dont have to visit the hospitals everyday . I had to go to a hospital recently and i was amazed to see the number of people there and this was a private hospital so i am amazed what a government hospital would be like . Tjhere were scpres of people waiting to get treated and i really thank god that my ailment is not that serious .

Secondly i wana talk about health i dont know about you but i always neglected my health for no definite reasons . I always cursed the food of mess and that made me ill too . Anyways for all those of you who identify with me i just have a request Please eat healty in order to live healthy . My non seriousness about food got me into trouble and everyone in my family was worried too . I had to miss the very exams that i was preparing for . I dnt know what repurcussion its gonna have further but still i am happy that finally i am healthy enough to
live a normal life .

Anyways more on all this stuff a little later .. wwhen i get back to college