The entire unit that was believed to have been involved in the incident was decimated, during the course of the war, so in a way, justice was done ----------- This sentence made me happy.
The unit here is the bloody group which did the bastardly and beastly act. Somehow my urge is satisfied to an extent after reading that line. Not sure though if it is true or not. I read this in one of the threads on Kargil war in Bharat-rakshak.com forum. There are links to videos on Kargil too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3FJP4i0JM8 I watched few. Also there is one article by Barkha Dutt. I do not know with what intention she wrote that article. May be she wants us to think or feel the way she thought by sharing her feelings. But as far as I am concerned, my resolve became more sound and solid and I didn't feel sad to say the least. In fact, my admiration for our soldiers grew more and I am really proud of our soldiers. This is the article: Confessions of a war reporter by Barkha Dutt. As it is a big article, I am only giving the url of my post. http://groups.google.com/group/birdsofsamefeathers/browse_thread/thre ad/ed0b6a798871783c I will share two poems that I wrote during Kargil war. In fact there was a diary too in which few pages are dedicated solely to Kargil. I am now in a certain trance, feel like reading those lines again and reliving those moments. But I am sure I have to search for that diary:) Good that until then you all will be safe :) You know what, I feel like my reading of the mail (on Oct 1st morning) is one more significant moment in my life like reading about Asma's case and posting the news in TP Web site. It was night and this time it is morning. Don't know why all the day I have been thinking so. There are many reasons to think so. Right from the Kargil days I longed to meet Late Major Padmapani Acharya's family. I wrote a letter to Vimala Acharya, his mother, in my diary. When I was posting articles in telugupeople.com, I get to know one person (I forgot his name) who told me that he is a colleague of Amrapali Acharya, sister of Padmapani Acharya and if I come to Hyderabad, he will take me to them. But I didn't go then. Even after relocating to Hyd, though I have been nurturing the idea every now and then, I didn't pursue it seriously. I lost touch with that guy. It was through him only that I get to know Amrapali's name. Then few months back in Ryze, I happened to see a profile, Amrapali Acharya. I mailed her asking if she is the same one. She replied and she is the one who gave me the phone number of her parents. But she forgot to add '2' before the number and my attempts to reach them were failed. I gave a call to them to invite to the RTI meeting. After two days I was discussing about STC annual conference with one of my peers, Chithra. In the course of discussion she told me that her ex-colleague Amrapali would be accompanying her as she did last year too. This name struck me again. I immediately asked if she is the same Amrapali Acharya. To my (what to call that feeling?), she is the same one. I was longing to get the right numbers. I mailed in Ryze interface and to yahoo id but not sure when she will check. I got the gmail-id and this time I received an immediate reply with two phone numbers. I thought of approaching her to discuss the topics related to Army and my main idea is to ask her if she can support the activities of 5th Pillar. And at last today's mail changed the priorities and the agenda of discussion too. Somehow I am feeling very confident this time that if we plan and organize well, we can succeed and it is not a big task to unite people. But we should be very knowledgeable and we need the support of the important people rather people concerned.
