To Every Soldier Standing Guard Tonight,
You may not know me.
And perhaps,
in the grand order of duty and destiny,
you never will.
But tonight,
across cities lit with silence and borders wrapped in smoke,
someone is writing to you
not as a civilian,
but as a voice for every mother,
father, child, and lover
sleeping under the flag you guard.
We don’t see what you see.
We don’t hear what you hear.
But we feel what you carry.
And though we cannot walk in your boots,
we stand behind every step you take.
This isn’t just another night.
This is the kind of night
that legends remember.
Where a country waits with breath held tight,
while a few men write fate
with fire in their veins.
They say silence is golden.
But in your silence,
I hear thunder.
A storm that doesn’t just destroy
it protects.
A silence that tells our enemies:
“If you see the tiger quiet__ Run !!.”
Somewhere far away,
a child sleeps thinking of becoming you.
Somewhere close,
a family whispers prayers
not out of fear but pride.
And somewhere,
in every Indian’s heart tonight,
is one truth burning louder than any siren,
You are not alone.
Every inch of this soil loves you.
Every wind that touches your helmet
sings for you.
And every heartbeat in this land beats a little louder because you are awake.
So hold it like it’s your spine.
Look at that uniform like it’s your soul.
And remember,
When the enemy knocks,
they don’t just meet a soldier.
They meet 140 crore people,
standing behind you ,
through dust,
death,
and every dawn after.
Give them fear.
Give them fury.
Give them the kind of fight
that history won’t dare forget.
And
If this letter stirred something in you, retweet it.
Let it find its way to a bunker,
a border post,
a soldier’s tired eyes
Let it remind them,
We’re not just a nation they protect.
We’re a nation that stands for them.
Let it reach who deserves to read it.
With pride,
With prayer,
With a salute that doesn’t stop
Jai Hind.
Pls get yourself medical help if you have a snoring problem so that you are not a public nuisance.
Horrible journey after paying a hefty amount on 3AC in IRCTC.
@IRCTCofficial Train no 16604
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Ms. Samantha Ruth Prabhu has responded to my "provocative" criticism of her endorsement of unscientific, pseudoscientific and baseless alternative medicine therapies by playing the victim card and endorsing more alternative practices.
Please note, she is a serial offender in the context of healthcare misinformation and she has been in the line of fire previously too. The reason why doctors like me have to spend (waste) time from our busy schedules to fight misinformation online is because it is peddled by large influential "celebrity" accounts that have no regard for public health. Engagement and monetization is their concern. Public health and disease prevention is mine. I (we) will be provocative, strongly criticise, be blatant, and brutal with facts because we have no time to waste, catering to emotions.
I expected better from someone who claims that she wants to "improve." This is far from improvement. A rational and logical response would be to delete the public health endangering posts and apologize to her millions of followers and vouch to never quote or cite fraudulent practices or practitioners.
I have absolutely ZERO hope for improving scientific temperament or rationalism in this country. Everyone role plays the victim of "scientific criticism" but will keep embracing and holding on to dogmatic views in healthcare, traditional untested observations or debunked dangerous therapies without shame or self reflection.
If celebrity influencers really want to impact people positively, then start unlearning and re-learn, develop critical thinking skills, disregard logical fallacies and stand up for medical science instead of "playing victim" of the same science that is helping you, and all of us, survive into the future.
I won't be commenting or debunking any of Samantha's future endorsements of pseudoscientific alternative public health endangering posts because,
“You can’t help people that don’t want to be helped.”
— John Armstrong