rakesh bhadauria

Once a soldier always a soldier

[rakesh bhadauria @bhadauriarps]

@HinaRKhar Strange that a former minister should be saying this. Relevance of a country is a factor Comprehensive Nation Power - and not by worshiping the US President

[rakesh bhadauria @bhadauriarps]

@jai_a_dehadrai Om Shanti🙏🙏

[Gen VK Singh @Gen_VKSingh]

Lieutenant General Vijay Oberoi, former Vice Chief of Army Staff and a decorated soldier-scholar, passed away this morning at Army Hospital,Chandigarh; after battling his illness.
In 1965, while serving with the his unit in Jammu & Kashmir, he was grievously wounded and lost his right leg. Refusing to let his disability define him, he continued to serve with distinction for over four decades.
A graduate of the US Army War College, he also served as Military Adviser to Malaysia.
Post-retirement, Lt Gen Oberoi remained a tireless advocate for soldiers. He founded the War Wounded Foundation and was founder-director of the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (CLAWS). He championed dignity and financial independence for war-disabled soldiers. He famously said, _“War-disabled soldiers should be treated at par with martyrs.”_ At 72, he ran the Mumbai Marathon on his prosthetic leg to prove that “spirit never retires.”
A prolific writer and military thinker, he authored numerous articles and books on national security and leadership. Yet beyond ranks and accolades, he will be remembered for his courage, humility, and unwavering commitment to the soldier.
My salute to this warrior whose courage and commitment inspired many . Pray to almighty to grant Sadgati to his noble soul and give strengthto the family to bear the irreparable loss.
Om Shanti

[rakesh bhadauria @bhadauriarps]

@Ambreenzaidi Om Shanti🙏🙏

[rakesh bhadauria @bhadauriarps]

@narendramodi @Gen_VKSingh Om Shanti🙏🙏

[rakesh bhadauria @bhadauriarps]

US plans big cut to fighter jets, warships for Nato: NYT https://t.co/YsKflvPxA4
Where are these assets being redeployed by US, not in West Asia for sure!

[Michael Kugelman @MichaelKugelman]

Pakistan has resumed air strikes on Afghanistan. Last week for @ForeignPolicy, I explained why a recent lull in violence was bound to be short lived—mainly because, even after internationally mediated talks, the crisis’s core issues remain unresolved. https://t.co/gAEWSlhe7Y

[rakesh bhadauria @bhadauriarps]

@PravinSawhney Don’t you have any other work to do other than trashing Indian Army all the time. It’s unfortunate that you wore OG once… Shame on you

[rakesh bhadauria @bhadauriarps]

@narendramodi Om Shanti🙏🙏

[rakesh bhadauria @bhadauriarps]

@PravinSawhney Do you seriously believe that it is not in our national interest or it is because you don’t like this government

[rakesh bhadauria @bhadauriarps]

@ShekharGupta Om Shanti🙏🙏

[rakesh bhadauria @bhadauriarps]

@MichaelKugelman Pakistan has dealt with US establishment for very long. Munir and his stooge Sharif would have known the risks. So what was at play - national interests or personal interests. Poor Pakistanis deserve better

[Michael Kugelman @MichaelKugelman]

As I’ve said previously re Pakistan, the more you work with Trump, the greater the risk you’ll be asked to do something you don’t want to do-like join the Abraham Accords. An occupational hazard of being in his good graces.
An awkward ask of Pak, but it shouldn’t be surprised.

[Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta]

Now this is audacity…Modi govt takes on the real and permanent establishment of India….

Centre tells Delhi Gymkhana Club to hand over land by 5 June, needs it to ‘secure defence infra’

Moushumi Das Gupta @dgupta_moushumi reports for ThePrint

https://t.co/59fUWfBXlm

[Aviator Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey]

Finally, justice has been served !!!🇮🇳

“Happy to inform that today I have assumed the appointment of Brigadier GS Int of the Command! May the chair, appointment and the rank keep me humble, dedicated to our organisation and our beloved Motherland!”
_ _ Brigadier Shrikant Purohit

There are moments when truth, patience, and integrity finally prevail. An officer who once faced injustice and humiliation has now earned the position he truly deserved. Time has a way of restoring balance. Respect earned the hard way lasts the longest.

Congratulations Brigadier Purohit.
Jai Hind. 🫡

#BrigadierPurohit #IndianArmy #JaiHind #JusticePrevails #ServiceBeforeSelf

[Michael Kugelman @MichaelKugelman]

This is a major development. According to this report, DoJ’s decision came after Adani hired one of Trump’s personal lawyers, and Adani’s legal team promised prosecutors that he will invest $10 billion in the US economy and create 15,000 new jobs.

[Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳 @NMenonRao]

Why does so much Indian TV news sound permanently out of breath/breathless? Every debate feels like a national emergency, every headline like a battlefield dispatch. Anchors speak in rising crescendos, panels shout over one another, graphics often flash like alarm systems. The Iran war for instance is depicted on screen framed in flames and “mahayudh” screaming all over it. We are unique in this pitch of constant crescendo.

It is not merely a broadcasting style. It reflects something deeper about us.

Our television news evolved in the age of ratings wars, political spectacle and 24/7 competition for attention. Calmness came to be mistaken for dullness. Excitement became a business model.

Nationalism, grievance, triumphalism, insecurity, outrage, aspiration, wounded pride, civilisational assertion, all coexist simultaneously. The result is a media register that sounds permanently adrenalised.

But older Indian broadcasting was very different. Listen to archival Doordarshan clips from the 1970s or 80s. The tone was measured, restrained, even austere. News was delivered as information, not performance.

Television producers have learned that perpetual urgency creates emotional addiction. If everything is historic, explosive, shocking, decisive, existential, viewers remain physiologically engaged. The problem, of course, is exhaustion. Nations cannot permanently exist at emotional fever pitch without consequences for public discourse.

Today we often sound perpetually excited, perpetually mobilised, perpetually “on”. Perhaps television has become the mirror of a society itself in emotional overdrive: restless, aspirational, anxious, performative, seeking validation every minute.

The irony is that true authority rarely needs to shout. Confidence usually speaks in a quieter voice. So the raised pitch is not just acoustics. Today the country is increasingly performing itself to itself.

And yes, I know I am about to be eaten alive for saying this, on Indian television and social media alike. That is perfectly fine. But perhaps it is time we introspected a little on what we have become, and why we now seem unable simply to speak to one another in a normal tone.

Much of our television news increasingly resembles coloratura without pause: high-pitched, breathless, emotionally over-ornamented, forever climbing toward some impossible crescendo. Every night, the nation seems to be singing at full volume.

But societies cannot live permanently at operatic pitch. At some point, we must learn again the power of modulation, silence, restraint, and calm.

[rakesh bhadauria @bhadauriarps]

@Opanin_totoFT @Megatron_ron If the countries only look for their short term political gains, it will be the end of rules based order and also end of MAGA

[rakesh bhadauria @bhadauriarps]

@narendramodi Om Shanti