Col D S Cheema

When school buildings crash and kill or injure students, politicians and bureaucrats of all hues and colours, must hang their heads in shame as they are all a part of the problem; politicians because of their foolish priorities and bureaucrats because of spring -loaded spine

A movement spearheaded by Mr Vivek Atray, a well-known thought - leader----- I THINK OF OTHERS -I TOO, was launched at Press Club yesterday.Like-minded friends like Ms Saguna Jain, Mr Hardeep Chandpuri, Mr C J Singh and yours truly are a part of it You too are welcome!

I am an author of 21 books, obviously, not a good one, as good authors find themselves in the orbit of celebrated writers with just one book It was one of the happiest moments in my life when I found one of my books in the LBSNAA library when I was invited for a session there

I am from Qadian and my wife was from Batala.Anyone who studied at Batala and/ or Qadian colleges during late fifties would have a story about Shiv. He was a classmate of my six- year older brother, Gursharan Cheema They were drinking buddies,

We want to be seen in good light not only during our lifetime but after death too. This is a block to nurturing non-physical DNA that defines authentic self- pretending to be something we are not and try to be like someone else Sidhu is on spot सब से बड़ा रोग, क्या कहेंगे लोग

Since all living beings are Nature's 'Work-in- Progress', the attitude of 'My best is yet to come' can help one lead a beautiful and purposeful life. Difficult to follow it with many compulsions of an imperfect life, but let's try it out.

Karan Thapar is known for his acid tongue and impatience with the guests His views on the award of Bharat Ratna are interesting.He has listed 14 undeserving names among 53 awardees so far. Surprisingly,he prefers Amitabh Bachan over Ratan Tata and Dr Manmohan Singh

I think it was much easier to be magnanimous in the good old days.Yet, greats like Gandhi, JRD, Mandella and Sam Bahadur redefined the meaning of magnanimity I know many interesting anecdotes Let's try to be as magnanimous as possible in our own operating environment

Remembering Flying Officer Nirmaljit Singh Sekhon, PVC (Posthumous) Sikhs are pioneers of flying in India. Amazed at their passion for flying Let's recall the contribution of Manmohan Singh ,Arjan Singh, Mohinder Singh Pujji, Baba Mehar Singh, Harjinder Singh

I think only chants of lament about lack of professional integrity of government servants, particularly, IAS and IPS officers by concerned citizens cannot get us any results in a rotten system like ours. Training Institutes must help the trainee-learners imbibe human values

Col Bath's case handed over to CBI IPS officers have proved their bias in the case, incompetence and professional dishonesty It means 1. Police can never change its spots 2. Judiciary is the only hope for the common man Their public disgrace is not enough, take them to task

Punjab IPS Promotions remind me of the famous Peter Principle Employees in any organisation get promoted and rise to their level of incompetence and hence fail their organisations in due course of time

All professional organisations have inhouse lobbies working tirelessly to enlarge their empires and manage own wellbeing ignoring the common good. Punjab with 20 DGPs ,is a case in point. The same with IAS cadre We need more working hands not more mouths shouting orders

We discussed Sustainability in our Discussion Circle meet last evening George Bernard Shaw argued " the greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty" Sustainability as being pursued today is meaningless if there are billions of hungry mouths anywhere on this planet

Single engine Cheeta and Chetak choppers which people like me flew in during 1986, were also used as OPs to guide fire in 1971 ops, They are still in service

An urgent need to initiate a national debate on the issue of continued use of vintage weapon systems resulting in loss of precious lives of our soldiers Not providing the latest, is an insult to the courage and bravery of brave hearts

ECI's "SIR" I am reminded of the popular definition of Ethics DOING THE RIGHT THING even if one has the RIGHT TO DO A THING

Indian armed forces continue using weapon systems, fighter jets , arms, ammunition and other equipment that should have been phased out at least two decades earlier. We overhaul, refit and upgrade to stretch their lives. At the cost of precious lives of young brave hearts.

D U to offer a dedicated course in 'Sikh Martyrdom in Indian History ' I feel validated since I have been advocating it for a long time. While writing the book Military History of Sikhs, I learnt so much. I strongly feel the youth of this country have the right to know all that

I fail to understand what good is RSS, the face of Indian pride, doing to India by holding door-to-door meets with the sole objectives of "galvanising" Hindus Imagine, similar steps from other religious organisations! Why are they bent upon dividing India further?