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NDA Cadet’s Life and the Art of Sleeping Anywhere — Even While Standing

rakeshkdahiya, 21/02/202505/05/2025

Shakespeare says sleep is nature’s nurse. And while I, with my limited acquaintance with his work,  often feel that he just strings some highfalutin words that sound impressive but mean nothing, I can’t argue with him on this one. Sleep is indeed aNurse, a Nurse that comforts, relaxes and restores. Maybe…

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Military Service Reflections. What is the Fundamental Guiding Principle in the Forces?

rakeshkdahiya, 03/01/202513/05/2025

Remember Colonel Hathi from Junglebook? Remember the scene where he lines up his troops and asks for volunteers for a ‘special mission’ – to take one step forward? Every member of his gang of course, hurriedly takes one step back! And why am I alluding to this? Well, if there…

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Life in the Services. ‘Cross country runs’ are Hell!

rakeshkdahiya, 09/08/202420/04/2025

This post is dedicated to our dear departed course-mate, the ever smiling, ever positive, Joginder Chandna. Chandna was born to run and was, to my amazement, happiest when participating in Marathons, burning up the miles with his graceful and fluid running strides. May his soul rest in eternal peace. My…

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A Witty Military Story. The First Punch and All Goes Black!

rakeshkdahiya, 06/07/202421/04/2025

Dishoom Dishoom As I have mentioned in some previous posts, the National Defence Academy lays considerable emphasis on physical fitness. This emphasis sees the Academy organising a large number of activities such as PT, swimming, drill, troop games, etc. This post relates to one of these activities, viz, Boxing. Boxing…

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Military Chronicles. You think jumping is easy? Think again!

rakeshkdahiya, 08/06/202410/04/2025

I had made a passing mention of jumping from the 7 m boardinto a swimming pool inan earlier post here. Well, this post aims to delve deeper into this lifealtering experience at the National Defence Academy (NDA).To recap – The swimming test at NDA has two phases; swimming50 m and…

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Military Memories. Swimming is Fun. Learning, not so much

rakeshkdahiya, 12/05/202420/04/2025

If one is looking for logic, the Armed Forces is not the place to seek it. Take for example, the system of privileges that seniority bestows. Within the Squadrons (hostels) at the National Defence Academy (NDA), there are marked (some would say silly) differences in how one dresses, even in…

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Military Service Reflections. The Joys and Sorrows of Horse Riding

rakeshkdahiya, 16/04/202420/04/2025

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’,…

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