<div>The different hues five minutes can adopt
By D K Havanoor
http://newindianexpress.com/opinion/article1454136.ece
I hail from Gulbarga in North Karnataka and back in the day, there were only two Sikh families who spoke in Kannada when they were outside their homes. So, I had never heard Punjabi being spoken by anybody, until I went for the SSB interviews for commission in the army. In the army I heard enough of Punjabi and was also exposed to the different dialects when I was commissioned in the Sikh Light Infantry.
When I was serving with the Assam Rifles, a colleague of mine narrated his experiences in the Low Intensity Conflict in Jammu and Kashmir, specifically the one that won him the Shouraya Chakra. After a military operation, the Army chief visited the site of the encounter and discussed key points about how the operation could have been more successful. The officer replied,
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By D K Havanoor
http://newindianexpress.com/opinion/article1454136.ece
I hail from Gulbarga in North Karnataka and back in the day, there were only two Sikh families who spoke in Kannada when they were outside their homes. So, I had never heard Punjabi being spoken by anybody, until I went for the SSB interviews for commission in the army. In the army I heard enough of Punjabi and was also exposed to the different dialects when I was commissioned in the Sikh Light Infantry.
When I was serving with the Assam Rifles, a colleague of mine narrated his experiences in the Low Intensity Conflict in Jammu and Kashmir, specifically the one that won him the Shouraya Chakra. After a military operation, the Army chief visited the site of the encounter and discussed key points about how the operation could have been more successful. The officer replied,
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