Refers Sunday Times Chetan Bhagat’s ‘It’s time to analyse OROP with our head, not our heart’
Dear Chetan,
From your internet CV I gathered that your dad is (or was) an army officer (Lt Col) and your mom a NFU Govt employee in the agricultural ministry. I hope they are alive and well and pensionable ? If they are not, please accept my heartfelt sympathies. I too am an old, tired and retired soldier; perhaps a man like your dad. I can quite well imagine the trials and tribulations that you may have faced in your youth, the trauma of a gypsy’s life, moving from one school to another, making a few cursory friend here or there, but growing up lonely and sad. Perhaps you never liked the disciplined life that your dad proscribed, did you dislike your dad or the army for it ? I noted from your CV that one or both your parents made great sacrifices, way beyond the call of duty, to put you through IIT & IIM and spent money that they never had, to get you into a bank in Hong Kong, where despite 11 yrs of pampering at mind boggling salary, you were found a non-performer and cocked up the ‘khushi’ life facilitated by your doting parents. A loser. You then turned a writer and self-published banal, idiotic and highly unreadable trash. But I want you to know that, because you are an army brat, I love you like a son. I am proud of your accomplishments, even if you sit on your brains, become a presstitute, turn Judas, and write articles like the one in ToI this morning with no clue about what you are writing – just like the trash I have written about you above.
‘Excuse Mois S’il Vous Plait’, the above was simply to prove a point to you, lacks veracity, conviction or evil intent – I am not a presstitute!!!
This style of insidious reportage, propaganda bending facts, ill-conceived notions with a hidden agenda (like injecting a vaccine), paid reporting, or psy war, was invented by Dr Goebbels, the German propaganda minister during WW-II. Our MoD now even has a Psy War Cell !! Our venerable propaganda ministers (Jet Lee and Sharp Shooter R’Hore) are even more brilliant than Go or Mo Bhai, and have encouraged elevation of insidious and obnoxious reportage to a fine art, with Pulitzer calibre presstitutes like Shekhar Gupta. Now you too. I congratulate you on your joining this exclusive band wagon, the intellectual whores. The media of every kind seems to be within the iron fist of the propaganda ministers, with the ability of blacking out even the internet (another report in ToI that Surat has been blacked out).
The saddest part that I noticed this morning, at the end of your article, you have even solicited SMSs @ Rs 3 per sms. I presume that if 5 laks citizens and veterans send you hate sms, you would be richer by Rs 15 lks by this evening, that is besides what Lee & Hore Pvt Ltd, or ToI, must have paid you to write this deeply hurtful, but clever canard. You can now go laughing to the bank when it opens tomorrow. I have also noted that within minutes your article has triggered an online battle between ill-informed supporters of BSF and the army. Well done ‘Beta’, that is exactly what Lee & Hore Pvt Ltd wants. Screw the incredible Indian Army, Navy and AF, by bayonetting the hapless veterans.
Now that you have set the cat amongst the aged veteran pigeons, I humbly request you to pay a visit to Jantar Mantar, talk to a few tired and retired soldiers like me on what is OROP all about ? Investigate the gross injustice perpetuated by successive Govts for 40 yrs. Read the Koshyari Committee Report, the SC judgement, and check out two all-party parliamentary approvals, all about implementation of OROP which Lee, Chaddi & Hore Pvt Ltd doesn’t want to do using concocted and incredible arguments, God knows for what purpose or intent. I strongly recommend that you meet the functionaries of the OROP protest to hear what they have to say, ask Air Mshl Savoor Rtd about the actual financial implications. Find out the truth behind the evil machinations of Lee, Chaddi & Hore, our GoI Pvt Ltd.
And after you do all these, fully educated yourself on the subject of OROP, please sit and write another balanced analysis. I will then be even more proud of you, sing your praise all the way when I go to Valhalla. By the way the Lt Cols, Cols, Brigs and Generals (+ their equivalents), they are not fighting for OROP, they are simply, peacefully, seeking justice; not for themselves, but for the men whom they commanded in peace or war, in the best traditions of the armed forces of India. So what if they are retired, it is aa family like none other. Believe you me Chetan, if these old men start a fight, god bless you all.
Best regards
Jai Hind
Wg Cdr Unni Kartha (Rtd)
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Saw the TOI and read the article by Chetan Bhagat. We all know that such articles are in accordance with the media support for Govt's version of OROP and that the ESM views and protests are not to be given coverage by the media. At the bottom of today's article ToI has sought feedback through sms. Please type MTMVCB No and send it to 58888. Do it from mobiles of your family members also. Please pass this on to all groups to flood TOI
- Wg Cdr Unni Kartha (Rtd)
- Wg Cdr Unni Kartha (Rtd)
[TriServiceVeteransIndia] Latif Vadakkayil col_latif2000@yahoo.co.uk
On 20 September 2015 at 19:05
Sir, Now a days most part of the media has no ethics. They employ reporters and columnists with big names and without realising the facts and editing, sitting in a/c rooms simply clear all trash written by so called popular writers and publish it. Once you earn a prize for your novel or article (by hook or crook or by the hand of some politician) means you have become god, and all that rubbish you write is never checked by so called editors and they simply publish it. It is time media must wake up and go in search of ground reality. Jai Hind Ki Sena (Uncomparable with anyone on this earth)
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