---------- Forwarded message --------- From: N Sekar <[email protected]> Date: Sun, Nov 23, 2025, 12:57 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: To: <[email protected]>, Rajaram Krishnamurthy <[email protected]>, Bala N. Aiyer <[email protected]>, ARR <[email protected]>, Dr Sundaram Srinivasan <[email protected]>, Chittanandam V R < [email protected]>, APS Mani <[email protected]>, YM < [email protected]>, Jambunathan Iyer <[email protected]>, Capt. Ravi Mahajan <[email protected]>, Vanakkam Subbu < [email protected]>, Rangarajan T.N.C. <[email protected]>, V. Sridharan <[email protected]>, Yeddanapudi Markandeyulu < [email protected]>, gopala krishnan <[email protected]>, SRIRAMAJAYAM <[email protected]>, Mathangi k kumar < [email protected]>, Suryanarayana Ambadipudi <[email protected]>, Srinivasan Sridharan <[email protected]>, Narayanaswamy Sekar < [email protected]>, venkat raman <[email protected]> Cc: Kerala Iyer <[email protected]>, Surendra Varma < [email protected]>
Thank you. What a tribute, what a tribute, that too from an enemy Nation. Thanks to him for a truly remarkable obitury. I wish our leaders, opposition leaders mainly, read this and learn to respect our soldiers. It is under the protection they provide, we sleep well. My heart goes out to the family of the hero, who undertook dangerous manoveurs just so that our flag can fly high. My pranams and thanks to all our braveheets, we remember you in our prayers. N Sekar Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=US_Acquisition_YMktg_315_SearchOrgConquer_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=US_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100002039&af_sub5=C01_Email_Static_&af_ios_store_cpp=0c38e4b0-a27e-40f9-a211-f4e2de32ab91&af_android_url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yahoo.mobile.client.android.mail&listing=search_organize_conquer> On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 11:12 AM, Rama <[email protected]> wrote: *Subject ... A Tribute* *An obituary for a fellow fallen air force pilot can't get better than this. And it becomes at its finest when the words come from none other than your "so called" arch enemy. This is professional respect and camaraderie beyond borders of hate at its best.* *This piece on Wing Commander Namansh Syal is written by a fellow Air Force pilot from Pakistan Air Force Air Commodore Pervez Akhtar Khan.* *Here's the tribute... It is a MUST READ.* *š¼ ššš”šŖš©š š¼šš§š¤šØšØ šš šššØ* *The news of an Indian Air Force Tejas falling silent during an aerobatic display at the Dubai Air Show breaks something deeper than headlines can capture. Aerobatics are poetry written in vapor trails at the far edge of physicsāwhere skill becomes prayer, courage becomes offering, and precision exists in margins thinner than breath. These are not performances for cameras; they are testimonies of human mastery, flown by souls who accept the unforgiving contract between gravity and grace in service of a flag they would die defending.* *To the Indian Air Force, to the family now navigating an ocean of absence: I offer what words can never carryācondolence wrapped in understanding that only those whoāve worn wings can truly know. A pilot has not merely fallen. A guardian of impossible altitudes has been summoned home. Somewhere tonight, a uniform hangs unworn. Somewhere, a child asks when the father returns. Somewhere, the sky itself feels emptier.* *But what wounds me beyond the crash, beyond the loss, is the poison of mockery seeping from voices on our side of a border that should never divide the brotherhood of those who fly. This is not patriotismāit is the bankruptcy of the soul. One may question doctrines, challenge strategies, even condemn policies with righteous furyābut never, not in a universe governed by honor, does one mock the courage of a warrior doing his duty in the cathedral of the sky. He flew not for applause but for love of country, just as our finest do. That demands reverence, not ridicule wrapped in nationalist pride gone rancid.* *I too have watched brothers vanish into silenceāSherdil Leader Flt Lt Alamdar and Sqn Ldr Hasnatāmen who lived at altitudes where angels hold their breath, men who understood that the sky demands everything and promises nothing. At the moment an aircraft goes quiet, there are no nationalities, no anthems, no flags. There is only the terrible democracy of loss, and families left clutching photographs of men who once touched clouds.* *A true professional recognizes another professional across any divide. A true warriorāone worthy of the titleāsalutes courage even when it wears the wrong uniform, flies the wrong colors, speaks the wrong tongue. Anything less diminishes not them, but us. Our mockery stains our own wings, dishonors our own fallen, makes our claims hollow to valor.* *Let me speak clearly: courage knows no passport. Sacrifice acknowledges no border. The pilot who pushes his machine to its screaming limits in service of national pride deserves honorāwhether he flies under saffron, white and green, or under green and white alone.* *May the departed aviator find eternal skies beyond all turbulence, where machines never fail and horizons stretch forever.* *May his family discover strength in places language cannot reach, in the knowledge that their loss illuminates something sacred about human courage.* *And may weāon both sides of lines drawn in sand and bloodāfind the maturity to honor what deserves honoring, to mourn what deserves mourning, and to remember that before we are citizens of nations, we are citizens of skyāall of us temporary, all of us mortal, all of us trying to touch something infinite before gravity reclaims us.* *The sky grieves without borders. Let us do the same.* *Cheers* *Rama * *Ramaswamy* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. 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