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Saturday, July 4, 2020

The Daily Observer: 5th July 2020

😎THE DAILY OBSERVER-32:05 July 2020: 03:46 πŸ˜Ž

Hitech Murali stole the thunder with his U-tube cover video song.

There seems to be no dearth of talented singers in the group.All would do well to go through the "5 W's" guidelines posted by Saxi before forwarding any message on social media. Brother Gurvinder withdrew his interesting response to Rajbir's " gay officer " post after being "enlightened " by a "brother GC in the group." Thus putting to a stop what promised to be an interesting discussion.Suresh Dikshit posted a video of Grumpy taking a bath. Sirohi posted a video on the Gold scam in China.Rakesh Luthra reposted a cartoon earlier posted by Satish. Both commented on how the opposition and veterans on media are unwittingly exposing national strategic plans to the enemy by their comments and questions. Pushpendra Yadav posted a video showing a distinguished senior veteran using abusive language on a news channel. S Murali posted a brief write-up on the timings and significance of Guru-Purnima. He also took this opportunity to share with all the most  important knowledge that snails can crawl over razor-blades, courtesy Google guru. Wonder why this was not taught in school, OTA or even Commando Course. Maybe SBT will tackle this issue in a Webinar. Talking of which, Sanjay Soi had his live fb session on travel which was attended and liked by Arun and his better half. Satbir posted info about the Panipuri ATM and Saxi about the Doon Putla Bhandar. Sawant posted a Ghulam Ali ghazal and Panditji came out roaring about the JAG Department. Apparently he was not too happy about Prabhat Jha calling it a Branch and saying its battlecry was "Chhapte raho ." Panditji also posted two videos on the Chinese situation, in both of which half the time was devoted to casting political aspersions on a personal level.

Satish posted a video on Manekshaw which drew the response -" what did he do for release of Indian POWs in Pakistan?" from Navnit.Vish appeared briefly in the evening. Arun posted the photo of a mouthwatering keema dish. Shiv laid the foundation for further deliberations with his post - an article from the Guardian regarding China's info war. Ashok Chauhan posted a music video - Maati Baani - worth listening to. Saxi posted the story of the day - about TSD. SBT drew attention to his twitter remark on Ajay Shukla and Shiv endorsed. Sanjay Mishra sprung to defend. Sundereswaran posted a tiktok joke and Rajbir an article on shoes. A long discussion with Alfred on the "botched-up photo-op " followed with a number of photos and personal details of Nehru being posted in counter-argument. Naithani posted a clarification issued  by the Army. Time will reveal the truth of it all. An earlier post on how to get rid of negative thoughts would serve well under the circumstances. It is very obvious that topics doing the rounds in media cannot be avoided in this forum. But maybe we have to remind ourselves that we are all officers and gentlemen, and  should  practice what we preach. 

Happy Sunday!