My magnificent alma mater, has some funny NDA stories. This is one of them. The sporting infrastructure was top class and ample. To take hockey as an example, there were some dozen odd fields. But as with anything else in life, while they were all equal, some being better kempt,…
Category: Humour in Uniform
Humour with a Twist. Pool Parties – Fun in Abundance
You know how liquor affects different people differently? It’s the cause of, as well as the answer to most of life’s confounding questions. Some otherwise reticent individuals become the life of a party. Some, quite ignorant of the vast gap between their capabilities and aspirations, become singers. Some others suddenly…
Onsens – Really Embarrassing, Really Great Fun
Let me tell you about my Onsen experience (funny only in hindsight). The Navy in its magnanimity, decided to depute me to the National Institute of Defence Studies, Tokyo for some higher studies in 2008. Japan of course is an amazing country, neat to a fault, its citizens courteous to…
Humour in Uniform. Want to Avoid Peril? Go for a Movie! Else Build Character!
Please allow me to hark back to my training days at the National Defence Academy. The Academy, in its attempt to lighten our days full of rigorous training, screened two movies a week. This post relates to one such day during my second term wherein skipping a movie resulted in…
Military Humour – Gosh! I Hate Exercise
I came across an article by a Harvard Professor recently, which stated that human beings have not evolved to exercise. I am sure he would have put in years of diligent research to come to this conclusion, so who am I to disagree. As a matter of fact I agree…