Training at the National Defence Academy has quite a large percentage of time devoted to the physical. This includes PT, swimming, drill, cross country, boxing, various troop games and (strangely) horse riding. One would expect, extrapolating from the movies, that horse riding is great fun –starting with hearty ‘yee haw’,…
Category: Humour in Uniform
Ah! The sights and smells of the sea – Catspaw
Captain William Bligh of The HMS Bounty (Anthony Hopkins) was relieved of Command by mutineers (led by Mel Gibson) and cast away in the middle of the sea in a boat along with a few loyal sailors. The Captain thereafter, displayed tremendous leadership qualities, excellent knowledge of seamanship and dogged…
Which is the best time-pass tool? Why, WhatsApp of course!
All sources of media, print, TV and Arnab Goswami, spend humongous amounts of money/energy to bring you the latest news, analysis, and happenings across the globe. But you will agree with me that they all pale into insignificance when compared with, indisputably, the most reliable of them all – WhatsApp…
Where would life be without alcohol? In a life without humour!
The discerning ones amongst you would have noticed that alcohol makes rather frequent appearances in my writings (for example here, well here too, and then again here). But then that’s merely because alcohol has so many wondrous qualities that it is not feasible to cover them all in one piece….
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
What was your most prized purchase once you started earning? Amongst young naval officers it was a vehicle – which in our case in the late 1980s was a ‘two wheeler’. Aah the freedom that a scooter/motorcycle gives! The joy of one’s hair flying in the wind, the exhilaration of…
Movie for the Commanding Officer: A fraught mission indeed!
I had made a mention of my Midshipmen tenure in Visakhapatnam in one of my earlier posts here. To recap, I was appointed by the Navy on a corvette for my Midshipmen tenure at Visakhapatnam in early 1987. The corvettes were fabulous ships – sleek, fast, had a menacing silhouette; bristling…
Is sauce for the goose also sauce for the gander. No!
I guess only Indians with their quaint eating habits will identify with this post. Nevertheless, here goes… Cuisines vary dramatically from nation to nation. A vast diverse country such as India will see cuisines change virtually every few hundred kilometres. I had mentioned here that I was fortunate to spend…