Sudarshan Chakra

it's enough now

[Sudarshan Chakra @sudarshan30987]

this is the real face of war my friends.think before u bring politics into everything. #CMModiVsPMModi

[Sudarshan Chakra @sudarshan30987]

That’s how you identify a #DimagiNaxal

[Chandra Kumar Bose @Chandrakbose]

Just to set the records straight…

For all non-Bengalis who confuse Durga Puja (of Bengal) with Navaratri (outside Bengal), there's a simple big difference in the way it's celebrated. While Navaratri could be religious (as people claim it to be), Durga Puja is a cultural festival. There's a remarkable difference between religion and culture.

Why is Durga Puja not religious, but cultural? Here's a Bongs take!

1. For most Bengalis, they have nothing to do with devotion, and everything to do with celebration. Religion (as it has become) is an organized way to deal with devotees, and the Bengalis are far far away from any sort of blind beliefs.

2. God/Goddess is an image that's alienated from family of our own lives and seen as an authority. To Bengalis, Durga is just a part of our family. She could be termed as the Goddess, but never seen with a God-like image. There's way more love than devotion. It's a very human connection. She's the daughter of the house who's come for Autumn break to her parents house with kids and friends

3. While people outside Bengal may fast as much as they like, Bengalis will continue to feast on Mutton Biriyanis and all sorts of delicious non-veg food (even at Puja premises where organizers often arrange for meals). Had there been any religious angle, things might not have been so simple.

4. Durga Puja as a festival is deeply connected to arts, crafts, music, theater, films ... everything! It's an all-round celebration. Only a very tiny percentage of people would bother to offer prayers. For the rest of us, Durga and the spirit of Durga puja is all in our heart. Even if we offer 'Anjali' (a prayer), our eyeballs hover all over the surrounding beauties in laal-paar-sada-sarees (a beautiful dress that ladies prefer to wear).

5. Durga puja is all-inclusive. Many Muslims in Bengal celebrate it too. Even there are religious Muslims who are the Presidents and Secretaries of Puja committees. No 'religious' festival could ever break these barriers!

6. There are hundreds of government and private awards given for 'Best Puja'. Not a single parameter in judgement relates to the devotion aspect of it. The Best Puja judgement takes into consideration the artistic finesse of the idol-making, the decorations around it, the lights, the sound, the safety measures, the theme, the concept, the social relevance of the theme, etc. It never considers how devotedly people offer prayers. So, devotion doesn't even come in our way of celebrating Durga Puja.

For those who have never witnessed Durga puja in Kolkata but have a lot to comment on it, please do make a visit. Your idea of a festival will change. Our country had no religion, but we thrived on our culture. It's time we pack religions into the sacks and throw them back to the western world (from where it has come) and fall back on our all-inclusive cultural ways of celebrating life once again.

Originally penned by Niilanjanaa Daschakraaborty

[Rising Star Corps_IA @RisingStarCorps]

#IndianArmy
#WeCare
#NationFirst

Care that reaches the last mile. Bonds that endure.

Bayonet Brigade of #RisingStarCorps, in coordination with the Civil Administration, organised Veterinary Camps at Lowang, Raulka Dhaulka & Dhaggar in #Kathua district, extending veterinary care, essential treatment and medicines to locals and the migratory #GujjarBakarwal community.

Care. Connect. Serve

@adgpi
@westerncomd_IA
@prodefencejammu

[Rising Star Corps_IA @RisingStarCorps]

#IndianArmy
#NationFirst
#WomenEmpowerment

🏐 Spike. Soar. Succeed.

Breaking barriers at Machhedi! Bayonet Brigade of #RisingStarCorps conducted the first-ever Girls’ Volleyball Tournament, bringing together 50+ young girls in a powerful display of talent, teamwork and determination.

Empowering girls. Building confidence.

@adgpi @WesternComd_IA

[Victorforce @Victorforce2]

Operation Sindoor Compilation Part: 2

[ADG PI - INDIAN ARMY @adgpi]

Transform... Integrate... Dominate.

#JAIseVIJAY
#ShadowsAndSteel 2.0

[Tukaram Mundhe @Tukaram_IndIAS]

The most expensive part of a hospital bill may never touch the hospital at all.

A patient admitted for care has no way of knowing whether the price on a medical consumable reflects its actual cost or a markup fixed long before it ever reached the ward. That gap in information is, at its core, a public health issue.

A survey of hospital consumables in Maharashtra found an IV infusion set with a trade price of ₹11.05 carrying a printed MRP of ₹325 ; a markup of 2,841%. A syringe procured at ₹6.75 carried an MRP of ₹57.20. A catheter procured at ₹29.41 carried an MRP of ₹310.

These are not elective purchases. Patients cannot compare prices, seek alternatives, or question a number printed on a box while receiving care and the MRP itself is often fixed upstream by manufacturers and distributors, disconnected from the trade price by a wide, unexplained margin. The result is a system where the party bearing the cost has the least information to evaluate it.

The regulatory gap is structural: scheduled medicines are capped under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013. Most medical devices and consumables are not leaving both the pricing and the information around it almost entirely unmonitored.

A review of these findings and clear guidelines on the permissible gap between trade procurement price and declared MRP have been recommended to the Department of Pharmaceuticals and the NPPA ; a step toward closing not just a pricing gap, but the information gap patients are left to bear alone.

#PublicHealth #GoodGovernance #Leadership #TukaramMundhe

https://t.co/Ye9CVzr8qU

[Pawan Khera 🇮🇳 ಪವನ್ ಖೇರಾ @Pawankhera]

It is too much to expect @RaviShastriOfc to know or remember that Dr Manmohan Singh was flanked by Hu Jintao and Dimitri Medvedev on March 29, 2012 in New Delhi.

Btw, we know who in the PMO is dictating these promotional posts!

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

🚨 HISTORIC VICTORY! SHEETAL DEVI IS THE 2026 WORLD PARA ARCHERY SERIES CHAMPION 🔥

A thrilling 10-9 shoot-off win over Kazakhstan’s Aizada Seidan.

=> CHAK DE BHARAT 🇮🇳

[NORTHERN COMMAND - INDIAN ARMY @NorthernComd_IA]

#OpPRITHVI

A team of #IndianArmy successfully scaled the icy & rugged heights of Mt Harmukh in inclement weather conditions and unfurled the Tricolour, along with six NCC cadets and two young men from border village #Keran

#HarGharTiranga
@adgpi
@DteJKL

[Sudarshan Chakra @sudarshan30987]

Wowww that’s amazing stuff…

[Sudarshan Chakra @sudarshan30987]

That’s some amazing stuff

[End Reservation - Arakshan Mukt Bharat @OfficeAbhishekT]

कुछ नहीं कर सकते तो रिपोस्ट कर सकते हो 🙏

धीरे धीरे भीड़ बढ़ रही है
सवर्ण समाज अब भी नहीं निकला तो अपने बच्चो के ख़राब भविष्य का जिम्मेदार वो स्वयं होगा
#21AugReservationHataoAndolan #EndReservationsNow #ReservationReforms

[Lt Gen DP Pandey @LtGenDPPandey]

Don't want to shame a lady who created scene in Ladakh. She did few damages that our country should know.
Tried to create a divide with Kashmiris who are equal partner and citizens of India and had to go through the challenges of security checks. No government or security force enjoys it. Today situation is peaceful because of the very uniform she said that draws pay through her tax.
For paltry little sum..and would love to crowd fund a month salary for her to serve in Siachen or at the place she created scene dealing with people like her.
We, and even after retirement, are taxed. In fact first taxed and then pay comes. So actually we pay in advance and then try and reclaim what has been cut extra.
She has let down and framed Gen Z quite negatively which is the attempt all over world. I personally meet huge number of Gen Z. They are patient, polite, respectful, and well behaved...even though in a digital world. Yet to come across like her in J&K and rest of India. Exceptions always existed in my time, before and thereafter.
She may never accept her tantrums were inappropriate but should accept the decent manner the Gen Z in uniform and their superior dealt with her.

[Army War College Mhow @ia_awc]

Young Minds, Nation First 🇮🇳
Celebrating the spirit of freedom at St Joseph’s Convent, Indore! A Faculty Member from #AWC hoisted the Tricolour on the 80th #IndependenceDay and interacted with students on #OpSINDOOR—encouraging them to dream boldly, lead with resolve and always put the Nation first. 🇮🇳

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

Someone, please shed light on what happened in 2014 to cause this sudden acceleration in FDI?

[Insightful Geopolitics @InsightGL]

-Meet Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Kishtwar Pankaj Kumar Sharma (JKAS)
-Culprit behind the illegal seizure of highly secret & confidential com eqpt along with special military operations vehicles
-He not only overshot his jurisdiction but also showed immaturity & poor judgment in understanding the security environment in Kishtwar
-His interference in #IndianArmy road opening procedure compromised security of locals
-Such incompetent people will keep growing in the system jeopardizing the regional & national security

#JammuAndKashmir

[Major Pawan Kumar, Shaurya Chakra (Retd) 🇮🇳 @major_pawan]

Spare the soldiers

Wear the shoes of RR company commander for a day and you will get to know the reality of life

Nuisance from the civil administration is the last thing he has written in his field diary

Hardly he gets the time to speak back at home in an entire day
Other than facing terrorists, he is always standing there for you amid all the threats uncared about his own life, wife, kids, and parents

Spare him please
He won’t care if you don’t offer him a seat while on leave
But he and his boys will surely mind it if his own police harasses him and becomes a hindrance in his operational duty
Spare him
Because let him focus on his operational duties
Don’t drag him in courts just because you have a mightier pen and a ego bigger than Mount Everest

Spare him
If you don’t want another pulwama
Spare him
If you want a safe and a happy trip in Kashmir

Spare the soldier

[Sanjay Dixit ಸಂಜಯ್ ದೀಕ್ಷಿತ್ संजय दीक्षित @Sanjay_Dixit]

Back in the 1990s, I was DM and Collector (called DC in northern Sates and UT) in a border district (Barmer). The road to Barmer was narrow single lane and we encountered Army convoy quite often. If one got caught behind a convoy, it used to waste a lot of time. Back then, we had the red beacon too, but even that never helped. We had 2 units around Barmer and winters used to be exercise time too. I discussed it with the COs who advised me of the strict movement protocols the convoys had to follow. So what to do? I mustered up resources and got the road widened to 2 and a half lane. Problem solved for all. I actually became quite popular with the local Army and Air Force brass.
The DC of Kishtwar is not even an IAS officer. Yet his ego is bloated to oversize. If a jam is happening regularly due to Army movement, it is his fault.

[Col AJ🇮🇳 @ajaykraina]

Army vs Police in Kishtwar.

Beyond the visible show of solidarity (and rightfully so), these are a few hard facts that happen on the ground:
1. Bureaucrats, across the board have a strong dislike for Army. Ask any soldier who ever approaches a bureaucrat for resolving an issue related to own property or safety of family, and the real feedback comes out. Even LDCs and UDCs show an attitude not worth writing about
2. Cops, especially at SHO and similar levels, hold a similar attitude. IPS officers, especially at the senior level are much better while an ambiguity appears to be fogging the minds of junior and mid level officers.
3. Army treats both these entities with respect and usually goes beyond the laid down protocol to treat them well. So, a senior brigadier or general treating a DSP or an SP, despite a seniority gap of over a decade and a half, is nothing rare. All that news of joint ops are usually fabricated to accommodate JKP even when operations are wholly solely carried out by the Army. Sharing of intelligence and actual firing to kill are two different things but Army always shows large heartedness unlike cops whose sequence of operations during media brief always starts with JKP first. We witnessed some real ugly scenes during operations in Kathua recently. JKP, however, remains a potent force and deserves accolades but the evitable friction between functionaries at lower levels exists.
4. One reason why egos of cops clash with fauj is the system of badges of ranks evolved by the babus and never objected to by the forces. Not many countries follow such a system where a 12 years service IPS DIG wears same badges as a 22 years service Brigadier. The parity expected is based on a false equivalence but it exists in a naked form.
5. Through manipulated pay scales, similarly, IAS have placed themselves on top both in grades and in warrant of precedence. A simple comparison of the two documents of today and 1990 will prove the manipulation being referred to. IAS lobby today places armed forces somewhere in a vacuum between AIS and Gp B, referring to commissioned ranks as something belonging to a mystique.

While what happened in Kishtwar shouldn't have happened, believing the FIR and the sections of BNS applied will be a folly. The fact that RR teams do operate in covert mode is no revelation. If the cops want others to believe that they discovered the modus operandi only yesterday and decided to impound the civil vehicles being used by the RR troops on the spot, they would be seen as if pulling an impossible lie. What made them act in such a manner is now well-known! Ego of a bureaucrat vis-a-vis compulsion to oblige by cops vis-a-vis audacity to point a loaded weapon at RR troops. What followed thereafter could have got uglier.
Now, press will write what babus tell them, the cops will write sections as fancied but without truth in the FIRs while the RR troops will stay focused on their operations. Remember, if babus and cops had done their jobs well, army wouldn't have been called out of barracks to do what it is not supposed to do for so long in the first place. Pl note the so-called public meetings started happening after forces made environment safe enough to do so!
#EgoistsAndEgotists

[Lt Gen DP Pandey @LtGenDPPandey]

The promptness shown to file FIR against Army personnel goes absent when it comes to crimes and criminals.
As situation stabilizes in troubled area, the arrogance of power returns.
The very arrogance that leads to distancing from public, anger and alienation amongst common people. Security Forces stabilize by taking casualties, bridging the gap between civilian administration and civilians.
Once that is achieved, the cycle starts again.
Civil Administration is anything but civil.
Issue is not in delay of convoy of DC but issue remains of the egos. In an era of no red beacon vehicles, the egos continue to thrive in different manner.
Will urge @JmuKmrPolice not to allow any gap between the security forces come ever.
This is exactly what Pakistan wants. And the pompous administration will give exactly that. Only Soldiers and policemen will die. Common citizens will suffer. Nothing will happen to the ones who create conditions. @NorthernComd_IA @OmarAbdullah @ajaykraina
@adgpi @manojsinha_ @JmuKmrPolice