Jae Rajesh

Indian Navy veteran, fitness aficionado, loves to travel, trekked extensively, skydived, whitewater rafted.. with a passion for photography and music

[Jae Rajesh @jaerajesh]

Earth, water, fire, air and space. It's all there. It's all you need. Rest are all decoration.

[राष्ट्रीय समर स्मारक / NATIONAL WAR MEMORIAL @salute2soldier]

On superannuation, Rear Adm C Raghuram, VSM, laid a wreath at #NationalWarMemorial — saluting the immortal courage of our fallen heroes whose supreme sacrifice lights the flame of duty, honour & pride in every beating heart of the #Nation.

[Miran🇮🇳 @Miran7g]

#Mizoram | Students and teachers of Serchhip Shalom Special School (Vohbik School) expressed deep sadness as 14 Assam Rifles Commandant Col. Archit Goswami was transferred to another posting.

Known for his care and support towards the special school and its students, Col. Goswami was given an emotional farewell by the school community, who appreciated his contributions to the welfare and development of the institution.
#AssamRifles #ArchitGoswami #ShalomSpecialSchool

@ajaykraina @LtGenDPPandey

[Jae Rajesh @jaerajesh]

This Independence Day, let’s honour freedom not just as a nation, but within ourselves. Breathe deeply, stand tall, stay grounded, like the tricolour in the wind. May our minds be calm, hearts open, and spirits fearless!

Jai Hind!!

#TheWellnessBreak #YogaWithEase #HarmonyWithin

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Never thought I would quote a song from something as clichéd as the musical “The Sound of Music,” but it’s what came into my head when I saw this video about the extraordinary story of Kaamya Karthikeyan.

“Climb every mountain
Search high and low
Follow every highway
Every path you know

Climb every mountain
Ford every stream
Follow every rainbow
'Till you find your dream”

Kaamya, congratulations on your world-beating achievements. You make us proud.

But I also have to express my admiration for your parents. Because, as you so eloquently expressed, they were the ones who did not dismiss what most parents would see as a child’s impractical whim.

What we can learn from them is that the way to make a child achieve great things is not through relentless pressure, but through quietly encouraging & faciltating children’s OWN desires and ambitions ‘until they find their dream.’

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Jae Rajesh @jaerajesh]

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[Jae Rajesh @jaerajesh]

This throwback kindled an instant connection to my yoga journey.
Both offer profound lessons in overcoming fear and achieving higher states of awareness.
Try skydiving for a really transformative experience. And if you aren't keen on jumping out of planes, there's always yoga!

[Jae Rajesh @jaerajesh]

@BECIL_India All the best Commodore! BECIL is sure to see excellent days ahead with you at the helm.

[Aseem Anand 🇮🇳 @aseemanand67]

Been a year,where European style footpaths are made for vendors & parking so pedestrians walk on roads. 1year since existing footpaths were broken,Service lane made even smaller & footpaths unusable by pedestrians. #MillinieumCity @OfficialGMDA @cmohry @PMOIndia @DC_Gurugram 1/2

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

An incredible letter written by a non-Jewish Scottish professor to his students who voted to boycott Israel

It's a response from Dr. Denis MacEoin to the motion put forward by The Edinburgh Student's Association to boycott all things Israeli, in which they claim Israel is under an apartheid regime.

Denis is an expert in Middle Eastern affairs and was a senior editor of the Middle East Quarterly. Here's his letter to the students.

TO: The Committee Edinburgh University Student Association.

May I be permitted to say a few words to members of the EUSA? I am an Edinburgh graduate (MA 1975) who studied Persian, Arabic and Islamic History in Buccleuch Place under William Montgomery Watt and Laurence Elwell Sutton, two of Britain 's great Middle East experts in their day. I later went on to do a PhD at Cambridge and to teach Arabic and Islamic Studies at Newcastle University . Naturally, I am the author of several books and hundreds of articles in this field. I say all that to show that I am well informed in Middle Eastern affairs and that, for that reason, I am shocked and disheartened by the EUSA motion and vote.

I am shocked for a simple reason: there is not and has never been a system of apartheid in Israel .

That is not my opinion, that is fact that can be tested against reality by any Edinburgh student, should he or she choose to visit Israel to see for themselves. Let me spell this out, since I have the impression that those members of EUSA who voted for this motion are absolutely clueless in matters concerning Israel, and that they are, in all likelihood, the victims of extremely biased propaganda coming from the anti-Israel lobby.

Being anti-Israel is not in itself objectionable. But I'm not talking about ordinary criticism of Israel . I'm speaking of a hatred that
permits itself no boundaries in the lies and myths it pours out. Thus, Israel is repeatedly referred to as a "Nazi" state. In what sense is
this true, even as a metaphor? Where are the Israeli concentration camps? The einzatsgruppen? The SS? The Nuremberg Laws? The Final Solution? None of these things nor anything remotely resembling them exists in Israel , precisely because the Jews, more than anyone on earth, understand what Nazism stood for.

It is claimed that there has been an Israeli Holocaust in Gaza (or elsewhere). Where? When? No honest historian would treat that claim with anything but the contempt it deserves. But calling Jews Nazis and saying they have committed a Holocaust is as basic a way to subvert historical fact as anything I can think of.

Likewise apartheid. For apartheid to exist, there would have to be a situation that closely resembled how things were in South Africa under the apartheid regime. Unfortunately for those who believe this, a weekend in any part of Israel would be enough to show how ridiculous the claim is.

That a body of university students actually fell for this and voted on it is a sad comment on the state of modern education. The most obvious focus for apartheid would be the country's 20% Arab population. Under Israeli law, Arab Israelis have exactly the same rights as Jews or anyone else; Muslims have the same rights as Jews or Christians; Baha'is, severely persecuted in Iran, flourish in Israel, where they have their world center; Ahmadi Muslims, severely persecuted in Pakistan and elsewhere, are kept safe by Israel; the holy places of all religions are protected under a specific Israeli law. Arabs form 20% of the university population (an exact echo of their percentage in the general population).

In Iran , the Bahai's (the largest religious minority) are forbidden to study in any university or to run their own universities: why
aren't your members boycotting Iran ? Arabs in Israel can go anywhere they want, unlike blacks in apartheid South Africa . They use public transport, they eat in restaurants, they go to swimming pools, they use libraries, they go to cinemas alongside Jews - something no blacks were able to do in South Africa .

Israeli hospitals not only treat Jews and Arabs, they also treat Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank.

On the same wards, in the same operating theatres.

In Israel , women have the same rights as men: there is no gender apartheid.

Gay men and women face no restrictions, and Palestinian gays often escape into Israel, knowing they may be killed at home.

It seems bizarre to me that LGBT groups call for a boycott of Israel and say nothing about countries like Iran , where gay men are hanged or stoned to death. That illustrates a mindset that beggars belief.

Intelligent students thinking it's better to be silent about regimes that kill gay people, but good to condemn the only country in the
Middle East that rescues and protects gay people. Is that supposed to be a sick joke?

University is supposed to be about learning to use your brain, to think rationally, to examine evidence, to reach conclusions based on solid evidence, to compare sources, to weigh up one view against one or more others. If the best Edinburgh can now produce are students who have no idea how to do any of these things, then the future is bleak.

I do not object to well-documented criticism of Israel . I do object when supposedly intelligent people single the Jewish state out above states that are horrific in their treatment of their populations. We are going through the biggest upheaval in the Middle East since the 7th and 8th centuries, and it's clear that Arabs and Iranians are rebelling against terrifying regimes that fight back by killing their own citizens.

Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs alike, do not rebel (though they are free to protest). Yet Edinburgh students mount no demonstrations and call for no boycotts against Libya , Bahrain , Saudi Arabia , Yemen , and Iran . They prefer to make false accusations against one of the world's freest countries, the only country in the Middle East that has taken in Darfur refugees, the only country in the Middle East that gives refuge to gay men and women, the only country in the Middle East that
protects the Bahai's.... Need I go on?

The imbalance is perceptible, and it sheds no credit on anyone who voted for this boycott. I ask you to show some common sense. Get information from the Israeli embassy. Ask for some speakers. Listen to more than one side.

Do not make your minds up until you have given a fair hearing to both parties. You have a duty to your students, and
that is to protect them from one-sided argument.

They are not at university to be propagandized. And they are certainly not there to be tricked into anti-Semitism by punishing one country among all the countries of the world, which happens to be the only Jewish state. If there had been a single Jewish state in the 1930's (which, sadly, there was not), don't you think Adolf Hitler would have decided to boycott it?

Your generation has a duty to ensure that the perennial racism of anti-Semitism never sets down roots among you. Today, however, there are clear signs that it has done so and is putting down more. You have a chance to avert a very great evil, simply by using reason and a sense of fair play. Please tell me that this makes sense. I have given you some of the evidence.

It's up to you to find out more.

Yours sincerely,

Denis MacEoin

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

And every now & then you stumble on a video which makes you wish: Why couldn’t the whole world be like this??

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

My personal congratulations to @presidentaligy of Guyana for putting that condescending, racist, insufferable @BBCWorld know-it-all in his place 🙏🏾

[Jae Rajesh @jaerajesh]

@mrsinha @BefittingFacts ഇതൊക്കെ പറഞ്ഞിട്ട് കാര്യവില്ല.

[Piyush Goyal @PiyushGoyal]

UPI ATM: The future of fintech is here! 💪🇮🇳

[Col Hunny Bakshi @ColHunnyBakshi]

Worth the 2 minutes
Do listen

[Manan S. Bhatt @mananbhattnavy]

As #OceanGate #Submersible heading towards #Titanic is lost, let's take a moment to Salute and remember our Submariners and understand about their Lives inside Submarines.

Even hardcore sailors think ‘they’ are crazy, but they do so with great regard to the submariners.

Any man with the Dolphin badge deserves all the respect and some more, for they are the submariners; men who volunteer to lock themselves up in a windowless, cramped, steel contraption of a vessel to work tirelessly for one and a half months at a time with 250 ft of sea above them.

When they enter the submarine and the hatch closes above them they know fully well that there are no exit doors for them in the event of danger. Yet, they step down the ladder bravely with their heads held high.

The entry inside a submarine is through a conning tower where a cylindrical staircase drops 10ft down into abyss. Once inside, there goes the modern engineering Marvel called #submarine.

The heart thumps and the lungs expand, greedy for oxygen. One cannot help but look up at the hatch — the last source of sunlight. Once everybody climbs down, the door at the conning tower is sealed and secured. Now, you feel like you are inside a fully packed tube.

If you are claustrophobic it is at this point that you are willing to meet your Creator.

Surrounded by water, the most precious commodity inside the submarine is water, used only for drinking and cooking. The crews use disposable, medicated clothing.

Space inside the submarine gives the phrase packed-like-sardines-in-a-tin a new meaning. Filled with gadgets, valves, gauges and other instruments there’s hardly any space for the crew.

In some areas you cannot even walk straight as you collide head on with the heavy equipment.

The crew is exposed to chemical gases for several weeks. Lack of sleep and intense work & no sunlight affects their health.

Though submariners are provided with berths or racks to sleep, many often sleep where they work. Everyone onboard submarines cleans toilets without any hesitation.

A submariner goes to work the minute he steps inside one, every day is a work day, till he reaches port. Men lose count of their body clock spending long periods in closed quarters with no fresh air or sunlight; being away from family and friends; following a work-life routine very different from the regular also suffer loss of appetite.

Submariners are basically astronauts of the deep.

These exceptional super soldiers function and strike at the enemy target at a pace, which is faster than that of a second needle of the clock.

Sitting inside a menacing contraption, deep under the sea, fully aware of the dangers lurking in the waters, submariners are the bravest men of our country, safeguarding our nation from seaborne threats.
#submariners #IndianNavy

[Swapnil Pandey @swapy6]

Sub Major/Hon Capt Mahendra Singh KC, SM joined 9 PARA (SF) in the 90s and served actively till 2015 when he got shot in his spine in an Operation. The nerve-racking Op in which NINE also lost Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami AC. Lnk Goswami was awarded Ashoka Chakra & Mahendra Saab a Kirti Chakra the only one that 9 PARA (SF) has till the time #Balidan was written.

Any operation which 9 PARA (SF) has conducted since the time they were deployed in the Valley in the 90s with terrorism at its peak till the era of modern warfare in 2015, Mahendra Saab has been directly or indirectly part of it. Almost all the famous names, the colonels,the generals from NINE have had the honour to serve with Mahendra Saab. He is an institution in himself & revered as a Mountain of 9 PARA (SF)

Read his story in my latest, BALIDAN 👇

THE GREAT MOUNTAIN OF 9 PARA (SF)

https://t.co/D3HYIX5C4y

[INS Shivaji @IN_INSShivaji]

Congratulations Cdr MSN Murthy for getting the patent for "A PART ELECTRIC GAS TURBINE".

@IN_INSShivaji is proud of you.

Bravo Zulu!!

#Engineer
#shivajiyan
#way_to_go_ahead

@iitbombay
@IN_HQSNC
@indiannavy
@IndiannavyMedia
@PRODefPune
@msnmariner

[K.Annamalai @annamalai_k]

We don’t get to determine the uncertainties in our life. However, we get to decide whether to overcome those or not.

The life of Commander Abhilash Tomy stands testament to this.

His conviction, courage & perseverance is truly inspiring as he set sail again to complete what he missed a few years back. (1/5)

[IN @IndiannavyMedia]

Saluting the indomitable spirit of #IndianNavy #veteran @abhilashtomy at @ggr2022. His exceptional sailing skills, unwavering determination, & relentless focus are a true inspiration for generations to come
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