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The government or for that matter, media must stop drum beating about withdrawal or who won and who lost. India have already committed a grave mistake by the ceremonious inauguration of the border road by defence minister. This has waken up even nepal unnecessarily. Do China drumbeat what they have done in the Himalayan region? They have quietly built massive eco system. One do Drumbeating only when you want to hide the shortfalls. We must agree that we have overslept and over confident in this case
What we need to seriously examine is our own thinking about defence matters. It is a fact that, forget the average citizen, even the politicians have no real understanding of military matters.Without properly assessing the cost of buying , maintaining & replacing armaments / ammunition AND providing for them, we spend our resources on paying high salaries to personnel.( The same goes for other matters too. For example, we have had no money to build proper storage for foodgrains procured, but we have continually increased the salaries of the procurement deptts. manifold. Meanwhile, the grains continue to rot ! )
In 2017, a study found that 60 % of our ammunition was past its useful life. Does anyone give a damn or understand its implication ?
The professional competence of our generals is never ever examined or discussed. One factor could be that after Independence, a huge army was left under command of persons who had been just Majors or Colonels under the British & therefore had no understanding of the broad strategic thinking that was required for a country of India’s size. Add to that our initial leaderships distrust of the army and conviction that scarce resources need to be used for development & not defence . It is now being said that our top military brass has a better knowledge of share / property markets than of military matters. That professionalism takes a back seat where sycophancy gets rewarded. We talk about the latest & most expensive weaponry, forgetting that it is the basic rifle that is THE decisive weapon in our many insurgencies. Do we even know what is the average score of our infantrymen in firing at a fixed target a 100 meters away ? Or how accurately our artillerymen are trained to fire ?
Our only hope would be if our retired military officers had a forum where they could frankly discuss the problems facing our defence & above all , how our top brass could be made to act more professionally. For example, Gen. Thapar clicked his heels & saluted when Pt. Nehru ordered him to throw the Chinese out of Sela, but Gen. Manekshaw refused to act until he was fully prepared for the Bangladesh war. Or, when the Kargil incursions were discovered, how our army commanders, without knowing the full extent of the incursions, wildly promised to throw out the intruders in two days. They sent our javans scampering up the mountains, to be mowed down, in their scores , by enemy machineguns. But in the same engagement, Air Marshal Tipnis refused to join the melee until he had prepared the air force for a full fledged war.
Not entirely correct! The army has much proffessional competence at the working levels right up to AHQ, it’s politics and Babu’s who fail us and that cannot change! Look at the relevance given to National Interest by this government alone! The NSA can meddle with everything and even gets the COAS to salute him!
From the day they came to power, the armed forces have only been ill treated and miss used. The result is there to see!
When 8th failed leaders govern, their only aim is to have photo shoots with chinese premier or american president, and in their uneducated tiny brain, that is all the foreign policy that a nation needs.
We deserve such joker as PM
What about the m/f gandhi Nehru family, they r the one responsible for all this since independence. U like highly educated looters that a true nationalist. Shame….
Quite rightly said. The need to bring out these facts are in national interest. The real weakness where it hurts most is CCP thugs moneys belt. If consumer stop buying their end products, it will help to send that message. BjP is shying away from telling us it, like the previous governments, is indeed being bullied by Ccp thugs, instead of looking weak, it will create a democratic revolt for CCP Chinese thugs product. We are Jerry and they are Tom. And then work your act out.
We all are beating in the bush for our opaque understanding what the real situation is at the border due to false narrative of the Govt. Informations are suppressed. Just like Pakistan gives false impression to its citizens and medias. Similarly, India is doing the same when the confrontation is with China.
Quite so.
Modi is a Nehru (3.0) after Vajpayee’s Nehru (2.0)
India took 50, 000 Square Kilometers of Indian Territory in 1962.
Post 1962:
Every time there is an opportunity which the Chinese see, the Chinese come further into Indian territory. This is like moving forward towards the goal in Rugby or American football.’
Apart from on going fluid opportunities due to lack of border infrastructure for the Indian Armed Forces, the Indian Army presented the Chinese with two significant opportunities, which they took advantage of.
(1) During Kargil, the Indian soldiers were moved from their positions at Daulat Beg Oldie to reinforce the forces taking on Pakistan’s Norther nLight infantry in Kargil Heights. Kargil was a classic example of Indian failure in intelligence, logistics, military command and control as well as political leadership. In effect, the Pakis had moved into the heights and entrenched themselves when the Indian Army moved down during winter. Just as the Chinese did when the Indian Army moved from Pangong Lake (Daulat Beg Oldie) to Kargil. And India had to retake what was originally its own at enormous cost of Indian blood and lives owing to poor preparation, lack of ammunition, lack of reliable and appropriate equipment and weaponry, lack of co-ordination and laughable, unrealistic “Charge of the Light Brigade” Brass Hat commands, totally divorced from the reality on the ground or the methods of 20th Century warfare..
(2) Owing to the lack of proper high altitude winter equipment, the Indian Army again moved to lower slopes more recently vacating territory which the Chinese quickly occupied.
In both cases, the buck stops at the table of the politicians and bureaucrats at Delhi who constrain the Army into having to cope with what they have and carrying out orders issued with scant understanding of warfare or operational command. This the Government does not want exposed.
The Indian Army on returning to these heights in fairer weather resume patrolling in India’s side of the LAC only to find themselves challenged by the Chinese who are now in occupation leading to these tussles.
There is also the pathetic faith of India’s “diplomats”, “bureaucrats” and “politicians” that foreign powers are more honest than themselves and will adhere to promises, agreements and treaties more faithfully than they themselves do. Hence, there is an excessive faith in diplomacy and that China will adhere to what was the agreed Line of Actual Control rather than in building, refining and applying Indian hard power.
All that has been agreed so far is “disengagement” of forces at a line which is well within India’s territory (India is notorious for fighting all its wars inside Indian territory. Every dog barks in its own back yard?)
China has occupied Indian territory and now India and China have agreed to disengage well within Indian territory. This is exactly what has happened since1947
So each time, China takes 100 and returns 25 or less while India goes home with its tail tucked between its legs.
In India, the truth will surface in shorter time than during earlier eras due to Social Media and leaks of military information by patriotic soldiers on the ground.
Gen Panag was in the pinnacle of Army Rank and file. Then what all steps did he take to modernise the Army. Why is the Indian Army is still in prehistoric era with substandard weapons, equipments and personal clothing? The unemployment rate is so high in India that even highly academically and technically qualified individuals are joining in the lowest profile of Armed Forces. The quality of personnel joining the army had improved but the Army is still where it is. Whome should anyone blame? Politicians, bureaucrats or top army brasses who did this ultimate failure in planning to modernise the Army.
Does any of the writters ask questions how we came to this, congress seems to have always brushed the issue under the carpet and that is what we seem to like. As a nation we need to stand up to the bully and show them their place , whatever it takes it to do .We as a nation should know only brave are respected timidity does not pay .
Role nd creibility of our military has been severely bruised nd downplayed by the current govt by its political interests. From Balakot, Chandrayan-ii to Galwan, it’s all over to promote the events to boost Govt’s political agenda.
No other govt in the history of this country rode on d fame nd achievements of these institutions to advertise for its own promotions.
This is utterly sad nd bleak for country’s future!
Gen Panag I really like your well written articles.You are really brave son of Mother India like Ajai Shukla and BrahmaChellaney.May GOD bless you with long life
“Proclaimed ‘Doklam victory’ is a classic example where the opaque disengagement process actually allowed the Chinese to occupy the entire plateau which can be seen by the public on Google Earth. How did we come to this sorry pass? ”
How did we come to this sorry pass. Because of the overarching goal of making a coward into a hero. A dwarf to a giant. An intellectual cretin to a genouls
The plain truth is that in India at present the only moral value that holds is that of winning elections and remaining in power as long as India still exists as a country and this mindset is appreciated and applauded by the majority. Witness the way in which senior ideologues of a party are willing to jump to the rival party at the drop of a hat. I would not be at all surprised if tomorrow Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi defect to the BJP and Amit Shah and Narinder Modi defect to the Congress. To hold power you need help of shady characters (DSP Davindra Singh needed for hanging Afzal Guru and parliament attack and the likes of Vikas Dubey are small fry who are eliminated when not useful anymore.It is not safe to mention bigger names).Truth is hated so much that in spite of my best efforts I could not get a print copy of the book” War Dispatches” by Lt.Gen.Harbaksh Singh from any source and had to be content with the Kindle version.In another article Gen.Panag refers to the Hype that was built up around the Goa operation. That hype was nothing compared to the hype built around Surgical Strikes and Balakote. It is astounding that the same persons who hyped the punitive action at Balakote now hype the fact that the Indian Army soldiers did not even fire a shot as they were beaten to death.and indeed the Foreign Minister replying to Rahul Gandhi asserted that they were fully armed and loaded as they were killed !
No country can develop as long as it is at war with its own people.Unfortunately the majority is brainwashed into thinking that India is the greatest country in the World and Hindus are the greatest people in the world and the reason for the fact that that the actual state of affairs is quite the opposite is because of minorities especially Muslims. Thus attention from addressing the real reasons for India”s poverty (India’s per capita income is slightly more than Sub Saharan Africa) is diverted to Cow Slaughter,Muslim Personal Law, Article 370 and Citizenship Register and it is these issues which matter at the ballot box.
General Panag talks of biding time for 30 years. Apart from the fact that during those 30 years we would be spending all our time building citizenship registers and putting non citizen Muslims in detention centers and tending stray cattle, fate has something else in store for the subcontinent. 4000 years back the Harappan civilization was destroyed by a 200 year long drought at the beginning of the Meghalayan Period. Science predicts that if carbon emission continue at the present rate the subcontinent will meet a similar fate in less than a century, perhaps in just half a century so that the name of India might survive only in History books.
Poets are prescient and the poet Iqbal hinted in one of his verses that such a fate might befall India if Indians failed to grasp their actual reality in a logical and objective fashion. He used the urdu phrase “Na sumjho gey). ” “Na sumhaj ” is a person who is foolishly unaware of the reality of a situation.
Poets are romantic….most poets have been failures in life!!! so much for that..
The writer is talking of dealing with China..he is looking at the Chrystal ball, but putting across a view point – not astrology (I am not endorsing his views here)
The nebulous and unresolved borders with China is here to stay fro some decades….THAT should not be the central point in our actions to build a strong Nation (we are only 70 odd years old – a young Nation)…
We CAN be strong despite the undefined LAC. Just get your priorities right and we will be there
If only all the people especially all the leaders especially all the leaders who hold the reins of power would frankly admit and tell the people that India is a young underdeveloped country just 70 years old and with a per capita income slightly more than that of Sub Saharan Africa and not an established great power and and needs to develop from scratch in a rational manner all the problems facing India would be solved. This was what everyone understood from Achhe Din and Vikas Pursh but today nobody talks of either Achhe Din or Vikas..
Hindus voted for Modi not for ache din and vikas, but because his anti-Muslim plank appealed to them. Even today, that is sufficient for Hindus.
His daughter was defeated in elections by bjp. So every chance he gets, he rolls out this gyaan. All these paper tiger generals are products of Congress’s chamcha culture
It is amazing that Babus in and out of uniform sitting on fat pensions and perks start giving words of wisdom on source based information. Little realising that the ones in authority were trained by them. On the back of the statements such as ” The yawning gap in comprehensive national power vis-a-vis China, particularly with respect to economic and military factors, simply does not allow us to be an equal in the traditional competitive conflict.” do they not realize that the creation of this YAWNING GAP was there own doing while in power.
While China was building capacity the politicians and Babus (both in and out of uniform) were busy robbing or help rob the country.
HOW MANY OF THEM BROUGHT OUT THE THEFTS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN BASED ON THE INFORMATION FROM SOURCES.?
I dont understand General Panags whine..For 50 years after 62 we didnt do anything to improve our Border Roads infrastructure..when we started to take action it has infuriated the Chinese even tho our actions are on our side of the LAC..General Panag seems to suggest that we should do anything to antagonise the Chinese just because they have an asymmetric superiority in military buildup..according to him we should cooperate with the Chinese for the next 30years till we build up capacity..and I suppose taking the arguement of General Panag further we should just roll over whenever the Chinese take it upon themselves to activate the border and go beyond the 1959 claim line which holds no sanctity in their eyes
Well articulated and honest to the core.
सब अन्तर्यामी हैं।
The government or for that matter, media must stop drum beating about withdrawal or who won and who lost. India have already committed a grave mistake by the ceremonious inauguration of the border road by defence minister. This has waken up even nepal unnecessarily. Do China drumbeat what they have done in the Himalayan region? They have quietly built massive eco system. One do Drumbeating only when you want to hide the shortfalls. We must agree that we have overslept and over confident in this case
What we need to seriously examine is our own thinking about defence matters. It is a fact that, forget the average citizen, even the politicians have no real understanding of military matters.Without properly assessing the cost of buying , maintaining & replacing armaments / ammunition AND providing for them, we spend our resources on paying high salaries to personnel.( The same goes for other matters too. For example, we have had no money to build proper storage for foodgrains procured, but we have continually increased the salaries of the procurement deptts. manifold. Meanwhile, the grains continue to rot ! )
In 2017, a study found that 60 % of our ammunition was past its useful life. Does anyone give a damn or understand its implication ?
The professional competence of our generals is never ever examined or discussed. One factor could be that after Independence, a huge army was left under command of persons who had been just Majors or Colonels under the British & therefore had no understanding of the broad strategic thinking that was required for a country of India’s size. Add to that our initial leaderships distrust of the army and conviction that scarce resources need to be used for development & not defence . It is now being said that our top military brass has a better knowledge of share / property markets than of military matters. That professionalism takes a back seat where sycophancy gets rewarded. We talk about the latest & most expensive weaponry, forgetting that it is the basic rifle that is THE decisive weapon in our many insurgencies. Do we even know what is the average score of our infantrymen in firing at a fixed target a 100 meters away ? Or how accurately our artillerymen are trained to fire ?
Our only hope would be if our retired military officers had a forum where they could frankly discuss the problems facing our defence & above all , how our top brass could be made to act more professionally. For example, Gen. Thapar clicked his heels & saluted when Pt. Nehru ordered him to throw the Chinese out of Sela, but Gen. Manekshaw refused to act until he was fully prepared for the Bangladesh war. Or, when the Kargil incursions were discovered, how our army commanders, without knowing the full extent of the incursions, wildly promised to throw out the intruders in two days. They sent our javans scampering up the mountains, to be mowed down, in their scores , by enemy machineguns. But in the same engagement, Air Marshal Tipnis refused to join the melee until he had prepared the air force for a full fledged war.
Not entirely correct! The army has much proffessional competence at the working levels right up to AHQ, it’s politics and Babu’s who fail us and that cannot change! Look at the relevance given to National Interest by this government alone! The NSA can meddle with everything and even gets the COAS to salute him!
From the day they came to power, the armed forces have only been ill treated and miss used. The result is there to see!
When 8th failed leaders govern, their only aim is to have photo shoots with chinese premier or american president, and in their uneducated tiny brain, that is all the foreign policy that a nation needs.
We deserve such joker as PM
What about the m/f gandhi Nehru family, they r the one responsible for all this since independence. U like highly educated looters that a true nationalist. Shame….
Quite rightly said. The need to bring out these facts are in national interest. The real weakness where it hurts most is CCP thugs moneys belt. If consumer stop buying their end products, it will help to send that message. BjP is shying away from telling us it, like the previous governments, is indeed being bullied by Ccp thugs, instead of looking weak, it will create a democratic revolt for CCP Chinese thugs product. We are Jerry and they are Tom. And then work your act out.
We all are beating in the bush for our opaque understanding what the real situation is at the border due to false narrative of the Govt. Informations are suppressed. Just like Pakistan gives false impression to its citizens and medias. Similarly, India is doing the same when the confrontation is with China.
Quite so.
Modi is a Nehru (3.0) after Vajpayee’s Nehru (2.0)
India took 50, 000 Square Kilometers of Indian Territory in 1962.
Post 1962:
Every time there is an opportunity which the Chinese see, the Chinese come further into Indian territory. This is like moving forward towards the goal in Rugby or American football.’
Apart from on going fluid opportunities due to lack of border infrastructure for the Indian Armed Forces, the Indian Army presented the Chinese with two significant opportunities, which they took advantage of.
(1) During Kargil, the Indian soldiers were moved from their positions at Daulat Beg Oldie to reinforce the forces taking on Pakistan’s Norther nLight infantry in Kargil Heights. Kargil was a classic example of Indian failure in intelligence, logistics, military command and control as well as political leadership. In effect, the Pakis had moved into the heights and entrenched themselves when the Indian Army moved down during winter. Just as the Chinese did when the Indian Army moved from Pangong Lake (Daulat Beg Oldie) to Kargil. And India had to retake what was originally its own at enormous cost of Indian blood and lives owing to poor preparation, lack of ammunition, lack of reliable and appropriate equipment and weaponry, lack of co-ordination and laughable, unrealistic “Charge of the Light Brigade” Brass Hat commands, totally divorced from the reality on the ground or the methods of 20th Century warfare..
(2) Owing to the lack of proper high altitude winter equipment, the Indian Army again moved to lower slopes more recently vacating territory which the Chinese quickly occupied.
In both cases, the buck stops at the table of the politicians and bureaucrats at Delhi who constrain the Army into having to cope with what they have and carrying out orders issued with scant understanding of warfare or operational command. This the Government does not want exposed.
The Indian Army on returning to these heights in fairer weather resume patrolling in India’s side of the LAC only to find themselves challenged by the Chinese who are now in occupation leading to these tussles.
There is also the pathetic faith of India’s “diplomats”, “bureaucrats” and “politicians” that foreign powers are more honest than themselves and will adhere to promises, agreements and treaties more faithfully than they themselves do. Hence, there is an excessive faith in diplomacy and that China will adhere to what was the agreed Line of Actual Control rather than in building, refining and applying Indian hard power.
All that has been agreed so far is “disengagement” of forces at a line which is well within India’s territory (India is notorious for fighting all its wars inside Indian territory. Every dog barks in its own back yard?)
China has occupied Indian territory and now India and China have agreed to disengage well within Indian territory. This is exactly what has happened since1947
So each time, China takes 100 and returns 25 or less while India goes home with its tail tucked between its legs.
In India, the truth will surface in shorter time than during earlier eras due to Social Media and leaks of military information by patriotic soldiers on the ground.
Gen Panag was in the pinnacle of Army Rank and file. Then what all steps did he take to modernise the Army. Why is the Indian Army is still in prehistoric era with substandard weapons, equipments and personal clothing? The unemployment rate is so high in India that even highly academically and technically qualified individuals are joining in the lowest profile of Armed Forces. The quality of personnel joining the army had improved but the Army is still where it is. Whome should anyone blame? Politicians, bureaucrats or top army brasses who did this ultimate failure in planning to modernise the Army.
Does any of the writters ask questions how we came to this, congress seems to have always brushed the issue under the carpet and that is what we seem to like. As a nation we need to stand up to the bully and show them their place , whatever it takes it to do .We as a nation should know only brave are respected timidity does not pay .
Role nd creibility of our military has been severely bruised nd downplayed by the current govt by its political interests. From Balakot, Chandrayan-ii to Galwan, it’s all over to promote the events to boost Govt’s political agenda.
No other govt in the history of this country rode on d fame nd achievements of these institutions to advertise for its own promotions.
This is utterly sad nd bleak for country’s future!
Gen Panag I really like your well written articles.You are really brave son of Mother India like Ajai Shukla and BrahmaChellaney.May GOD bless you with long life
Pray sir, Please tel us should the whole processed be televised?
Regards
Give the CDS a fifth star and a five year term. He will see the required reforms through.
“Proclaimed ‘Doklam victory’ is a classic example where the opaque disengagement process actually allowed the Chinese to occupy the entire plateau which can be seen by the public on Google Earth. How did we come to this sorry pass? ”
How did we come to this sorry pass. Because of the overarching goal of making a coward into a hero. A dwarf to a giant. An intellectual cretin to a genouls
The plain truth is that in India at present the only moral value that holds is that of winning elections and remaining in power as long as India still exists as a country and this mindset is appreciated and applauded by the majority. Witness the way in which senior ideologues of a party are willing to jump to the rival party at the drop of a hat. I would not be at all surprised if tomorrow Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi defect to the BJP and Amit Shah and Narinder Modi defect to the Congress. To hold power you need help of shady characters (DSP Davindra Singh needed for hanging Afzal Guru and parliament attack and the likes of Vikas Dubey are small fry who are eliminated when not useful anymore.It is not safe to mention bigger names).Truth is hated so much that in spite of my best efforts I could not get a print copy of the book” War Dispatches” by Lt.Gen.Harbaksh Singh from any source and had to be content with the Kindle version.In another article Gen.Panag refers to the Hype that was built up around the Goa operation. That hype was nothing compared to the hype built around Surgical Strikes and Balakote. It is astounding that the same persons who hyped the punitive action at Balakote now hype the fact that the Indian Army soldiers did not even fire a shot as they were beaten to death.and indeed the Foreign Minister replying to Rahul Gandhi asserted that they were fully armed and loaded as they were killed !
No country can develop as long as it is at war with its own people.Unfortunately the majority is brainwashed into thinking that India is the greatest country in the World and Hindus are the greatest people in the world and the reason for the fact that that the actual state of affairs is quite the opposite is because of minorities especially Muslims. Thus attention from addressing the real reasons for India”s poverty (India’s per capita income is slightly more than Sub Saharan Africa) is diverted to Cow Slaughter,Muslim Personal Law, Article 370 and Citizenship Register and it is these issues which matter at the ballot box.
General Panag talks of biding time for 30 years. Apart from the fact that during those 30 years we would be spending all our time building citizenship registers and putting non citizen Muslims in detention centers and tending stray cattle, fate has something else in store for the subcontinent. 4000 years back the Harappan civilization was destroyed by a 200 year long drought at the beginning of the Meghalayan Period. Science predicts that if carbon emission continue at the present rate the subcontinent will meet a similar fate in less than a century, perhaps in just half a century so that the name of India might survive only in History books.
Poets are prescient and the poet Iqbal hinted in one of his verses that such a fate might befall India if Indians failed to grasp their actual reality in a logical and objective fashion. He used the urdu phrase “Na sumjho gey). ” “Na sumhaj ” is a person who is foolishly unaware of the reality of a situation.
Poets are romantic….most poets have been failures in life!!! so much for that..
The writer is talking of dealing with China..he is looking at the Chrystal ball, but putting across a view point – not astrology (I am not endorsing his views here)
The nebulous and unresolved borders with China is here to stay fro some decades….THAT should not be the central point in our actions to build a strong Nation (we are only 70 odd years old – a young Nation)…
We CAN be strong despite the undefined LAC. Just get your priorities right and we will be there
If only all the people especially all the leaders especially all the leaders who hold the reins of power would frankly admit and tell the people that India is a young underdeveloped country just 70 years old and with a per capita income slightly more than that of Sub Saharan Africa and not an established great power and and needs to develop from scratch in a rational manner all the problems facing India would be solved. This was what everyone understood from Achhe Din and Vikas Pursh but today nobody talks of either Achhe Din or Vikas..
Hindus voted for Modi not for ache din and vikas, but because his anti-Muslim plank appealed to them. Even today, that is sufficient for Hindus.
His daughter was defeated in elections by bjp. So every chance he gets, he rolls out this gyaan. All these paper tiger generals are products of Congress’s chamcha culture
Congress has no influence on IMA instructors.
It is amazing that Babus in and out of uniform sitting on fat pensions and perks start giving words of wisdom on source based information. Little realising that the ones in authority were trained by them. On the back of the statements such as ” The yawning gap in comprehensive national power vis-a-vis China, particularly with respect to economic and military factors, simply does not allow us to be an equal in the traditional competitive conflict.” do they not realize that the creation of this YAWNING GAP was there own doing while in power.
While China was building capacity the politicians and Babus (both in and out of uniform) were busy robbing or help rob the country.
HOW MANY OF THEM BROUGHT OUT THE THEFTS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN BASED ON THE INFORMATION FROM SOURCES.?
I dont understand General Panags whine..For 50 years after 62 we didnt do anything to improve our Border Roads infrastructure..when we started to take action it has infuriated the Chinese even tho our actions are on our side of the LAC..General Panag seems to suggest that we should do anything to antagonise the Chinese just because they have an asymmetric superiority in military buildup..according to him we should cooperate with the Chinese for the next 30years till we build up capacity..and I suppose taking the arguement of General Panag further we should just roll over whenever the Chinese take it upon themselves to activate the border and go beyond the 1959 claim line which holds no sanctity in their eyes
Gen Panag Saab is simply creating the ‘right atmosphere’ to make his book a BEST SELLER…
Col Ajay Shukla may follow with his advice…
Read again…dumbo