The road to time immemorial -- My Ajanta Ellora Visit

I am not a great fan of bacchanalia so this weekend i decided to go for a spiritual quest to the Ancient Indian Civilsation to get a shade under the rubble and wreckage of the caves carved into the great mountain range of Sahyadri in Aurangabad ( A city that is around 220 km from
Pune and 410 km from mumbai).
I took a seat in a bus from Pune and reached Aurangabad at around 5 in the morning. So immediately i decided to go Ellora as this is very near to Aurangabad (some 35 kms). I first gave my religious bow to the one of the 12 Jyortilinga in Shri Ghrishneshwar (1 km from Ellora). After that i started for Ellora. Well words are not enough to describe the greatness of the architecture that was at its peak at around 2000 years from now. Ellora has around 34 caves sheltering the statues of God Shiva, God Vishnu, Lord Buddha and many other deities of Hinduism.
The most majestic cave belong to the most potent God of the mother of all religion. This cave is known as Great Kailash cave. Apart from this cave there are other caves belonging to Lord Buddha and major figures from Jainism.
The raw cemetery of "Great Mughal Aurangzeb the Austere" also lies near Ellora caves (some 5-6 kms from Ellora).
The trip to Ellora was followed by a trip to "Biwi Ka Maqwara" that was able to ignite some ephemeral feelings. This is an exact replica of the so called Paragon of all modern indian monument (TajMahal) and it reserves the same very cause in its foundation.

The next day i took a Tourist bus to Ajanta caves to satisfy my alacrity. The Ajanta caves are around 110 kms from Aurangabad and bus takes around 3 hours to reach there. All buses have to stop at T-Junction. From there one has to pick a Pollution free bus in order to reach Ajanta caves (around 4 kms from T-Junction). Ajanta caves have paitings that are in a very pathetic situation. These paintings albeit in bits and pieces but they can allure any persom by just a gaze. These murals tell us how great our painters were in those days! All these frescos give a detailed representation of the various frames of Lord Buddha as well as Bodhisatva life. I was totally agaped by the magnificient aesthetic art of great painters who thrived in that region and in that epic time.
After covering and enriching myself with this experience i started for Pune. This weekend reserves a highest place in all the weekend i had till time memorial.

Interested people can take a view of some snaps from here.
They can also download pics from here.



Merry Christmas and a very happy new year to all my well wishers as well as to others.

The picture says it all "India and Ganguly both did the Phoenix"

Well, nothing to be worried about at the wanderers, things were amost perfect save some heroic innings from Prince and Pollock. India has successfully repeated the Adelaide and give us all some thing to cheer about. Kudos to Ganguly, what a fighter he is ! No word in my dictionary to describe his stoical attitude. Just as raw gold has to go through some extreme conditions and so Ganguly had to. He has made his point clear by the grace of his attitude and his never say die spirit.

S'Santh did the same work as done by Agarkar in 2003. Laksman played a superb knock in his 28 and 73. Tendulkar was scintillating in his first inning knock and the drama reached his epitome by some consummate swinging skills of Sreesanth. Merry Christmas Team India.

Happiness is the agent of Purification

Well, after having quite absorbing session in this conundrum (title) i gave a thought to some of my happiest moments and favorite items. Well last weekend some body asked me to rate my top ten Bollywood movies and top ten books. He caught me offgaurd no doubt about it but after giving quite a bit of time i came to enumerate my favorite movies and books well they are not in any strict order because i dont believe in less favourites and more favourites.
Favourite Movies
1. Deewar (1975)
2. Muqqadar ka Siqandar (1978)
3. Mughale Azam (1960)
4. Swades (2004)
5. Guide (1975)
6. Sarkar (2005)
7. Aankhen (1968)
8. Border (1997)
9. Sarfarosh (1999)
10. Hum apke hain Koun (1994)

Favorite Books/Stories
1. Fountain Head (Ayn Rand)
2. Vayam Rakshamah (Acharya Chatursen Shashtri)
3. Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
4. Vaishali ki Nagar Vadhu (Acharya Chatursen Shashtri)
5. The God Father (Maria Puzo)
6. Purushkar (Jai Shankar Prasad)
7. No Full Stops in India (Mark Tully)
8. Freedom at Midnight (Dominique Lapierre and Lorry Collins)
9. Main Kamf ( The Fuehrer aka Hitler, Adolf)
10. Volga se Ganga Tak (Rahul Sankrityyan)

Well the list cant be exhaustive but these are the books any one can fall in love.

Signing off to see the furore on Prime Minister speech by the Rights.

The pathetic indian showing: a mosaic of jumping jokers

When you all will read this post, 4th ODI between India and her predator South Africa must be in real time or in past time. I dont understand the fuss created by the MPs/Medias and angry supporters. Why these people are protesting? All are giving credits to Greg Chappel for this pathetic show but no body is contemplating about the power given to him in the past by us. The person (who deposed the most successfull indian captain, who is having an outstanding record in South Africa) is driving the team india to The Promised land. Some says that India has always struggled in South Africa thats true but struggle means fight and Team india has surrendered without even giving fight save in some bits and pieces just like the dazzling flame of soon to be extinguished candle.
And look at the preference of Laxman ( who never considered a good ODI batsman) as a replacement for Rahul Dravid over a person who has a great record against South Africa even better than the bellwether of all batsmen, Sachin Tendulkar and who is considered as one of greatest ODI batsman along with Sachin, Richards, Ponting and many others (Wisden)

Let us compare the showing of Team india when Ganguly's team visited South Africa in late 2001.
1. First match India scored 279 runs in 50 overs Ganguly scored 127 runs with 5 massive sixes all around the ground. India lost the match with a fight.
2. India won the second match comprehensively.
3. India lost the 3rd match by 46 runs, india was dooing good when Ganguly, whs scored 85 runs of 95 balls with 4 sixes and Dravid were at crease.
4. India lost the final.

The lowest score of India in that tour was 180 odd runs which is far better than the highest score of 168 runs so far (I hope it will improve).
I consider indian tour of South Africa in 2001 as a success as we fought each match with full enthussiasm and zest.

I dont know why the Indian Cricket clergy is making fool of us. Lets hope the victory of india today but omens are premoniting a different outcome. Lets hope time will solve the antipodal situations amen.

The fate of dying spirit

Well i guess i have taken enough break now it is very much incumbent on me to write some thing so decided to start with my rotten Cricket acumen. Today many saw the dramatic collapse of Australian as well as Indian top order in which the very best species strive to behave up to their phenomenal standards. From last year i am not watching any match live as a resolve but since cricket is in my blood so i cant stop writing about it. All my tribute to the God of all cricket loving indians who came from exile only to give his ardent fans the hope which died so soon.
If i criticize Dravid people will call be a fanatic suffering from some sort of biasedness but i dont give any damn shit to them. Such a great performance from The Great Wall of India. In last 9 matches he played he has scored 93 runs at an everage of 11.66.
Its hard to believe that India lost the WI series with a huge margin as well this tournament. This DLF cup saw some pathetic performance from indian top order batsmen. They have struggled in last three matches and it takes a lot of stress on my cerebral hemispheres to find out a cell containing any similar performances.
This team is full of superstars and superheroes but i think we need players to win matches. I can only criticize Dhoni for loosing his patience to go for that greedy shot (I know he was caught on a no ball) otherwise we were all well set to win the match and hopefully the tournament. Now the target is championship and may be the case that we can come as winners but the basic problem or solution will remain the same. India needs players who can give their sweat and blood inplace of those who are selling biscuits/sims/balms/cars/colddrinks and many other things.

The world cup is not too far and the game is beautiful
O God please help my dying spirit eleven heads full

(I will come back to my original thread in the next post till then SayoNara)

Bharat humko jaan se pyara hai

To my Paramour whom i love so much

Dedicated to some one very very special. I am not a poet and i cant be that one. This is my never ending list of trials to achieve .....................


Dedicated to one whom i call my paramour
love as selfisly as i love my own soul your soul

you are the passion, you are the sole inspiration
and you are the sole purpose of my transformation

You are the fire, power and you are the desire
you are the only one for whom i can ever aspire

Born to love you from heaven or hell my genesis
in my desert you are the only hope of an oasis

I am alone in this great ocean of depression
But no one to blame but me in this dejection

I am your other half so long you were searching for
and you are my first half with whom i came so far

You love me or not but i am as firm as t he pole star
that shines at a fixed state prooving love never alter

You make me crazy each time i saw you through eyes
my soul, heart pumps for your without saying any dies

You will remain my paramour throughout the life time
if not lucky in this life time then to say better next time

I love you with out having any name, no shame
you are the one for whom i can loose all worlds fame.

----- Neeraj Kumar Jadaun

The Legendary Indians

On August 9, 1925 ten men held up the 8 Down train at Kakori, a village near Lucknow, and looted its official railway cash. The Government reaction was quick and harsh. It arrested a large number of young men and tried them in the Kakori Conspiracy Case.

Ashfaqulla Khan, Ramprasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Rajendra Lahiri were hanged. Four were sent to the Andamans for life, and seventeen others were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment. Only Chandrashekhar Azad remained at large. In February 1931, Azad was trapped by the police in a public park in Allahabad. Azad shot himself in the temple with the last bullet that he had.

Followed by:

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• The Indian hockey team set sail for Germany in the ocean liner 'Aitheneaver' to participate in the Berlin Olympics. The journey lasted 15 days. The team lost hundreds of hockey balls while practising on the deck of the liner.
  
  
• One day after their arrival in Germany, India played a warm up game against a German side and lost 1-4. An urgent cable message went out from Berlin, asking for the services of A. I. S. Dara. Dara was air dashed to Berlin, just one day before India's semi-final match.
  
  
• India beat Hungary 4-0, United States 7-0 and Japan 9-0. Dara joined the team for the 10-0 massacre of France in the semi-finals. No team had scored a single goal against India in their relentless march to the finals.
  
  
• India met Germany in the final on August 15, 1936. The Indian team assembled in the dressing room prior to the match. All the players reverently saluted the tricolour of the Indian National Congress, which their Assistant Manager had taken with him to Berlin.
  
  
• The final started at 11:00 am before a record crowd of 40,000 spectators, the biggest ever to witness a hockey match in the Olympic Games. Among the audience was the ruler of Baroda, the princess of Bhopal, and other Indians who had travelled from the Continent.
  
  
• India was up by 6 goals in the finals. The Germans now decided to play rough. Going for Dhyan Chand, the German goalkeeper removed one of his teeth. Coming back after receiving first aid, the bare-footed Dhyan Chand instructed his team to go easy on goals. "We must teach them a lesson in ball control," he said. As the stunned crowd watched, the Indians repeatedly took the ball up to the German circle and then backpassed to dumbfound their opponents. India ultimately prevailed over Germany 8-1 in the finals to win its third successive Olympic gold medal.
  
  
• The Fuhrer was very impressed by Dhyan Chand's performance in the finals. At a dinner party after the finals, Hitler offered to elevate Dhyan Chand to the rank of a Colonel if he migrated to Germany. Dhyan Chand turned down the offer.
  
  
• This was to be the last Olympics of 'Hockey Wizard' Dhyan Chand. World War II intervened to prevent any more Olympic appearances of the hockey immortal. Dhyan Chand is to hockey what Bradman is to cricket and Pele is to soccer. Dhyan Chand scored over a thousand goals in a career spanning 1926 - 1948.
  
  
• The ultimate tribute was paid to him by a sports club in Vienna, which built a statue of Dhyan Chand with four hands and four sticks. To those Viennese, no ordinary man with two hands and one stick could have played so well. Every age produces its own genius. But the only hockey wizard of the 20th Century has been Major Dhyan Chand, the king among centre-forwards.
  
  
• Joseph Garibaldi, who resides in London, is the only surviving member of the 1936 Indian hockey team. He emigrated to England in 1956. Joseph Garibaldi remembers having met the great Jesse Owens. He told Owens that he must be the favourite for his events. Owens replied, "this is my first Olympic Games, therefore I cannot be sure. On the other hand, the Indian hockey team has always won the gold medal."
  

The poems i like most

SarFaroshi Ki Tamanna

Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaray dil mein hai,
dekhna hai zor kitna baazuay qaatil mein hai..
karta nahin kyun doosra kuch baat cheet,
dekhta hun main jise voh chup teri mehfil mein hai..

aye shaheed-e-mulk-o-millat main teray oopar nisaar,
ab teri himmat ka charcha ghair ki mehfil mein hai..
waqt aanay dey bata denge tujhe aye aasman,
ham abhi se kya batayen kya hamare dil mein hai..

khainch kar layee hai sab ko qatl honay ki ummeed,
aashiqon ka aaj jumghat koocha-e-qaatil mein hai..
Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaray dil mein hai,
dekhna hai zor kitna baazuay qaatil mein hai..

hai liye hathiyaar dushman taak mein baitha udhar,
aur hum taiyyaar hain seena liye apna idhar.
khoon se khelenge holi gar vatan muskhil mein hai,
sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai.

haath jin mein ho junoon katt te nahi talvaar se,
sar jo uth jaate hain voh jhukte nahi lalkaar se.
aur bhadkega jo shola-sa humaare dil mein hai,
sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai.

hum to ghar se nikle hi the baandhkar sar pe qafan,
chaahatein liin bhar liye lo bhar chale hain ye qadam.
zindagi to apni mehmaan maut ki mehfil mein hai,
sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai.

dil mein tuufaanon ki toli aur nason mein inquilaab,
hosh dushman ke udaa denge humein roko na aaj.
duur reh paaye jo humse dam kahaan manzil mein hai,
sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamaare dil mein hai.

Ag Jalni Chahiye
ho gayi hai peer parvat si pighalni chahiye
is himalaya se koi ganga nikalni chahiye
aaj yah deewaar pardon ki tarah hilne lagi
shart lekin thi ki ye buniyaad hilni chahiye

sirf hangama khada karna mera maksad nahin
saari koshish hai ki ye soorat badalni chahiye
mere seene main na sahi to tere seene main sahi
ho kahin bhi aag lekin aag jalni chahiye

and my Papa's favourite poem

Lahron ki ginti kya karna
Qayar karte hain karne do
Tufano se sahme jo ho
Pal pal marte hain marne do
Chir pawan nutan beej liye
Usha Jai Mukut Chadayegi
Patwar chalate jaoege
Manjil ayegi ayegi

The Innocent Girl

My first poem of this year:

One day i was siiting with Shobhit,
at the stairs of an old class room,
A girl came to unlock her bicycle,
as she was coming from other room,

I saw, I dreamed, who's she what thy name,
only helped by shobhit to know thy name,
never heard a buddying name, entire life,
only to fall in love with owner of thy life,

One day i was sitting with Shobhit,
at the stairs of an old class room,
I tried to talk to her so many times,
only to be failed, tried hard next time

Then came her birthday as told by my frnd,
then came the dream company, the same day,
Some one told me you will get that company,
only to prove that prophecy even exist today.

Those were the days i wept many times each day,
only to emerge stronger day after each day,
As some one shouted from behind
"Yeh Katha Kahani Kisse hain kuch bhi,
To Sar Nahin Baba", although this is not truth.

-----------Neeraj Kumar Jadaun
(Excerpts from 'The Gone Days' in BHU)
At last but as many says not the least, I strongly condemned the twin bomb blasts at Jama Masjid, Old Delhi. Some body has to stop them.

Much awaited Treat

No body has ever seen stars assembly at one place, but it happened on a very auspicious day of Saturday the 1st (Better known as World Fool's Day). Our own Santa rose upto the expectations and gave us a much awaited treat in Noida, afterall this is the beginning of the great beginning of the coming generations of Our own SANTA.
Each and every bit of the moment was enjoyable as Rajat the bhabhi, Yadav, Rahul, Saugata, Durgesh, DA, Nitin, Nimish and myself all are present save Sourabh The Jat and Kartavya The Metro... for unexplored reasons. (Shobhit and Sid, we have taken a very graceful revenge from that very Sanjeev Kapoors Restaurent of our 3rd year training in Noida). Aviral joined us only to leave us in a matter of just 5 hours. Manu The Jha*** was busy in some Adobe test and Our Lord Of the Kings (Bodi) or pseudo or Rajesh was some where else.
We really miss the rest of guys to much as we were 11 here still 23 were missing. Only God can tell us when we all have that unhappened grand confluence.

In the last I am writing to tell my fellow Indian Friends who forgot that their National Year 2063 has just started on 30th March 2006. Happy new year to all of you.
Signing off.
Neeraj

Athato Ghummakad Jigyasa --- 1

When one of my very dear friend was busy in writing the future, i was busy in exploring the past rather the glorious past of Bharat.
This tour diary has a nice percentage of adventure so i decided to divide it into 2 parts.

The Beginning
On Friday i.e. 17th Feb , evening on of my friend, a baypacket frnd, asked me about what i think about visiting some places that weeknd. I replied postively so we decided to visit some place.(Rishikesh) We reached Delhi Station around 11:00 PM. There we were not able to get a bus for Rishikesh so we changed our plan, to visit Jaipur. We reached Jaipur around 5:00 AM , saturday. Then we decided to go to Ajmer since we had to wait till 9:00 in order to visit any place in Jaipur, s sheer waste of 4 hours. We utilized those hours in reaching Ajmer. The capital of the Greatest Rajput Dynasty ever ruled India. About 12 kms from Ajmer there lies a place called Puskar. One of the most pious city as far as Hindus are concerned. Lies on a ground surrounded by some very high mountains. This town has the temple dedicated to Brahma Ji, the only such temple in the whole world.
This small town also witnessed one of the very fierce battle fought between the Chauhan ruler of Ajmer and Mahmud of Ghazni, 1025 AD approx. Mahmud was going to destroy Somnath, DharmGajDev Chauhan, the ruler challenged Mahmud near Puskar and defeated him. But due to cunning trick of Mahmud, Dharam Gaj Dev chauhan was killed when he was worshipping in Puskar after the victory. After that, the people of Ajmer and Puskar were massacred, some how the temple left. Dharam Gaj Dev Chauhan was the forefather of Great Prithvi Raj Chauhan.
After worshipping in temple and in Brahma Sarovar, we decided to conquer the final frontier of Puskar, The temple dedicated to 1st wife of Brahma Ji, Goddess Savitri. The temple is situtated on the top of the heighest mountain in Puskar. It was around 250 metres from the ground and around 600 metres from the sea level. Some how we reached the top, only to see only foreigners at the top. The path was very steep and very risky.
We reached Ajmer around 1:00 PM after having our Rajasthani food in Puskar. In Ajmer we visited Ajmer Sharif Dargah, and we dedicated one chadar on the Mazar. A holy trinity for me after visiting Piya Haji Ali Mazar, mumbai and Jama Masjid in Delhi. A great place to visit.
At around 3:00, we decided to visit the fort of the Chauhan rulers of Ajmer. The ruins of the fort can be find at a height of 600 metres from the Ajmer ground level and 900 metres from the sea level. On that mountain, there is a very small town. This town is known as Tara Garh, dedicated to tarabai, Tarabai was the first wife of Prithvi Raj Chauhan. This town has only muslim population and i found posters of only Shahid Afridi and many others i was not able to recognize. Around 100 metres below that town, on the same mountain range, Govt of India has erected a small museum dedicated to Prithvi Raj Chauhan and his forefathers.
We visited that museum, only to hear the sound coming from the TaraGarh loudspeaker.... And Mohammad Ghori founded this mosque and our great Ghori founded this. And we were hearing these sounds singing the praise of Mohammad Ghori, the archrival of Prithvi Raj Chauhan and India, in the heartland of Prithvi Raj Chauhan. This ended our stay at Ajmer.

This has been told by my HR

Altough i knew it but like to share with you all:
A mail Conversation between HR, Divya Alok Agarwal and Myself.

HR said:
Madan Mohan Malviya was trying to build a good university; he had to overcome many difficulties and barriers. He worked with determination to start the university. There was a funds crisis; but he did not get disheartened. He went from town to town, met many rich people and traders to collect donations. He went to the King to request him for funds.
The king was furious, 'How dare you come to me for funds... that too for a your university?' he roared with anger and took off his footwear and flung it at Malviya.

Malviya picked up the footwear and left silently. He came directly to the market place and began to auction the footwear. As it was the king's footwear, many came forward to buy it. The price went up.
When king heard of this, he became uneasy. He thought it would be an insult if his footwear were to be bought by someone for a pittance. So he sent one of his attendants with the instruction, 'Buy that footwear no matter what the bidding price be!'

Thus, Malviya managed to sell the king's own footwear to him, for a huge amount. He used that money to build the Benares University known popularly as BHU.

Moral: It is not what you have, but it is how you use what you have that makes the difference in your life.

Divya Alok Agarwal said:

We cannot forget the immense energy the great man invested for the common cause of getting established a temple of learning where students not only get material knowledge but something out of life also. Apart from this incident I would like to share some more of the incidents with you

1. Once there was a Harijan entry in the college. In the university mess no body touched the utensils used by the person. One day Panditji got to know this. He just cleaned away the utensils the very same night himself. That too when caste and religion were so firmly practiced. And on top of it he was the Vice Chacellor of the college. This shows how simple he was and did show a path to everyone by first implementing himself.
2. He collected coins which were showered on the dead bodies himself for the sake of University fund.
3. He did not make the university a family business. No earning goes to his family even today.
   

And countless other incidents which a person cannot even think of. He was a great visionary and did a great task in getting this university made. We should follow such a great man who contributed his whole life for the cause of masses. It is great that in this hectic schedule you made us remind of the great man.

My Self Joining the party:
I am always the last in reading mails in my inbox. Thanks for sending such an inspirational incident of our great Mahamana’s life. He dared to make him self comparable with the person whom he shared his birthday, the one who demolished the old ill customs of middle east, and the other one, who revived the Light of Asia. The first person was Jesus of Nazareth and the other our beloved Malviya ji.

“Madhur Manohar ateev sundar yeh sar vidhya ki rajdhani,
Yeh teeno lokon se nyari kashi, suvigyan, dharma aur satya rashi”

That is his/our BHU.

Book Reviews [1/2] : Volga Se Ganga, Ghazani se Somnath

Last week, I read two mind blowing books by two great Hindi SahityaKars.

"Volga Se Ganga Tak" by Rahul Sankrittyyan and "Somnath" by Acharya Chatursen Shastri. These two books are must read books for any Indian who wants to know about Indian history in the form of a lucid story. These both books serve the purpose with a purpose.

"Volga Se Ganga Tak" tells about the story of the migration of Aryan Tribes from the banks of river "Volga" in Central Russia and their struggle in founding a civilisation des miracles in India.

Well my views about the Aryans are quite opposite to that as mentioned in the book, i strongly believe that "India is the native land of Aryans and we are their proud inheritors, hope i will prove it some day with strong reasons and explanations".

Highly Recommended (9/10)

"Somnath" deals with the heroic resistance of Indian people/kings against the invasion of barbaric Mahmud of Ghazni, (Many people call him as Sword of Islam) on the that time epitome of Indian religion, The Somnath temple, in Gujarat in 11th century AD.

This book is too emotional for a person who is proud to be an Indian. This book tells how Mahmud of Ghazni destroyed the Shiva Linga into three pieces and took these pieces and burried these parts in the stairs of a Mosque in the Ghazni. Quite a tragedy for an Indian. He also took the doors of the Temple to his Ghazni. Those doors were brought back to India by Britishers, some people doubt that too.

After Independence, India did the honour and rebuilt the epitome. We can build any thing but we cannot revert back the history and we cannot and we should not take the revenge because that Mahmud is no more.

Highly Recommended (9/10)

Signing off....

Ab teri himmat ka charcha gair ki mahfil main hai

After a long time, i got some time to add some thing to my blog page. This page is for all the people who got ParamVir Chakra by fighting in the most graveyard conditions.
ParamVir Chakra
The highest decoration for valour is the Param Vir chakra which is awarded for the most conspicuous bravery or some daring or preeminent act of valour self-sacrifice in the presence of the enemy, whether on the land,at sea or in the air.The decoration is made of bronze and is circular in shape.it has, on the obverse ,four replicas of "Indra's Vajra" embossed round the state emblem in the center. On the reverse the words "Param Vir Chakra" are embossed both in Hindi and English with two lotus flowers in the middle.

And the list starts:

1	Major Somnath Sharma	Major Somnath Sharma	Param Vir Chakra	1947-48 Operation
2	Naik Jadunath Singh	Naik Jadunath Singh	Param Vir Chakra	1947-48 Operation
3	Battle of Tithwal	Karam Singh	Param Vir Chakra	1947-48 Operation
4	Raja Ramchandra Ki Jai	Havildar Major Piru Singh	Param Vir Chakra	1947-48 Operation
5	The Last Charge	Subhedar Joginder Singh	Param Vir Chakra	1962 Sino-Indian Conflict
6	Inspiring Leadership	Major Shaitan Singh	Param Vir Chakra	1962 Chinese Attack
7	Major Dhan Singh Thapa	Major Dhan Singh Thapa	Param Vir Chakra	1962 Chinese Attack
8	Gunning For The Enemy	Havildar Abdul Hamid	Param Vir Chakra	1965 Indo Pak War
9	Till the last breath	Lt.Col Tarapore	Param Vir Chakra	1965 Indo Pak War
10	A Solo Effort	Lance Naik Ekka	Param Vir Chakra	1971 Indo Pak War
11	An Inspiration To His Men	Major Hoshiar Singh	Param Vir Chakra	1965 Indo Pak War
12	Saviour Of Srinagar	Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon	Param Vir Chakra	1971 Indo- Pak war
13	Banas Rescue Mission	Naib Subedar Bana Singh	Param Vir Chakra	1987 Pakistani Infiltration in Siachen
14	Ambushed	Major Ramaswamy Parameshwaran	Param Vir Chakra	Indo-Srilankan Peace Accord
15	Young Hero	Captain Viram Batra	Param Vir Chakra	1999 Kargil war
16	A Dare Devil Leader	Lt. Manoj Kumar Pandey	Param Vir Chakra	1999 Kargil war
17	Grenadiers Charge	Grenadier Yogendier Singh Yadav	Param Vir Chakra	1999 Kargil war
18	A Cliff Hanger	Rifleman Sanjay Kumar	Param Vir Chakra	1999 Kargil war
19	In the Heart of Africa	Captain Gurubachan Singh Salaria	Param Vir Chakra	1961 UN intervention in Congo
20	A tireless Soldier	2nd Lt. Rama Raghoba Rane	Paramvir Chakra	1947-48 Indo-Pakistan War
21	2nd Lt. Arun Khetarpal	2nd Lt. Arun Khetarpal	Paramvir Chakra	1971 Indo-Pakistan War

They fought for strangers and those strangers are we. For a very good account please visit http://prideofindia.net/param.html. Happy browsing, signing off.

This post is dedicated to all Indian soldiers, Identified or Unidentified, died or wounded fighting anywhere, for any country, against any country. This is about France. The Stone of Remembrance at the center of the sanctuary with the main feature behind. Neuve Chapelle, France This memorial is dedicated to all The Indian Soldiers who fought for the France in First World War. In unforgottable words "Return to your home in the distant, sun bathed East and proclaim how your countrymen drenched with their blood the cold northern land of France and Flanders, how they delivered it by their ardant spirit from the firm grip of a determined enemy ; tell all India that we shall watch their graves with the devotion due to all our dead. We will cherish above all the memory of their example. They showed us the way, they made the first steps towards the final victory. THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.  

The Legend of Purana Kila

Well, now i have some time to add something to my maniac nature. I happened to be at Purana Kila some time ago. There is nothing very special, to a ordinary tourist. During my home visit my Father told me that in Delhi there is a Kila built by the Great Pandawas. Firstly i totally ignored that information as Pandawas were in india around 5106 years ago. But when i visited that fort just to convince myself, i was completely astonished. Although this Kila (in Indraprashtha) is under protection of Archeological sites law, but there are no sign boards there giving information about the history of the Kila, its history is also debatable. Some sources say that it was built by "Humayun" in 16th century. But a lay man can easily say that it was not built by Humayun as the architecture is pure hindu. All people call it by Pandwas kila. All the people who live near by also told me the same. It might be the case that it was given its new life by "humayun". It also has a Mosque built by SherShah suri. What ever be the case Indian Government should provide notice and sign boards inside that fort.
I forget to write about the remains of the fort. A very heavy crowded road bisects the Kila in two some how equal parts. The Fort has no proper room left as far as i have observed, only walls and grounds are there, singing the unsung glory of ancient indian architecure. I dont think but i believe that these are the remains of ancient fort built by pandwas or later indian kings much before Mughals.
Some times i think why indians are not told about their glorious past and about all other things that they can be proud of. Signing off.