Friday, February 27, 2009

Matter of Honour: Letter to Editor

Ref: A Matter of Honour: Times of India

Date: Thursday, 26 February, 2009, 4:50 PM
Dear Editor in Chief
1. On behalf of all Defence Personnel both serving and veterans, we from Indian Ex-Servicemen Movement (IESM) thank Editor-in-Chief, Times of India and his team for publishing a very relevant and focused Article, “ A Matter of Honour”, by Commodore Udhay Bhaskar (Retd) of Indian Navy on 25 Feb 2009. This will certainly serve the cause of Defence Services. The Govt and the Nation need to pay serious attention to strengthen the Armed Forces in quality and content, to face the Emerging Security Challenges to our Nation, both External and Internal.
2. In his speech to both houses of the congress, President Obama laid special emphasis to the Defence Services and need to qualitatively improve the service conditions of the Defence Personnel. There is urgent need for our Govt functionaries, specially the Prime Minister, Raksha Mantri, Finance Minister, Foreign Minister and all members of the cabinet to ponder over President Obama’s Speech to the Congress.
3. Thank you Times of India and Thank you Commodore Udhay Bhaskar. Keep at it please. Defence Services are the strongest pillar of Democracy. The Nation needs the Best Defence Services both “Man and the Machine”. There is much to be desired in this respect.

With Kind Regards,
Jai Hind
Yours Sincerely,
Maj Gen (Retd) Satbir Singh, SM

Letter from Commodore Uday Bhaskar
Date: Wednesday, 25 February, 2009, 9:52 PM
dear general satbir and brigadier kamboj,
i have recd. a number of calls and e.mails from the retired faujis....and some serving ones....in response to my article in the times of india of feb 25th. they were all very positive and i am deeply gratified and humbled......i sincerely believe that much of the praise and many of the superlatives were not warranted.
but a big thanx.....i have not been able to respond personally to all. sorry.
i have a request - and will be grateful if you can send this out on your net. the TOI has been very supportive of the OROP effort and this is borne out by their coverage of the event in their newspages....and now on the edit page. may i request those who are so inclined - to write to the TOI and commend the paper and the editor for their support...? the e.mail ID for the TOI letters section is:
mytimesmyvoice@timesgroup.com normal mail can be sent to: edit page editor TOI, bahadur shah zaffar marg, new delhi 110002.

warm rgds
uday bhaskar
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