The new CDS.

1. India Gets A New CDS

The Government of India has appointed Lt General Anil Chauhan (Retired) as the new Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). He will also function as Secretary to the Government of India, Department of Military Affairs.

In a career spanning nearly 40 years, Lt Gen Anil Chauhan (Retd) had held several command, staff and has extensive experience in counter-insurgency operations in Jammu and Kashmir and North-East India.

The development comes almost nine months after India lost its first CDS, General Bipin Rawat, who died tragically in a chopper crash in Tamilnadu.  

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One Song

Every war and every conflict

between human beings has

happened because of some

disagreement about names.

It is such an unnecessary

foolishness because just beyond

the arguing there is a long table of

companionship set and waiting for

us to sit down.

What is praised is one, so the

praise is one too, many jugs being

poured into a huge basin. All

religions, all this singing, one song.

The differences are just illusion

and vanity. Sunlight looks a little

different on this wall than it does

on that wall and a lot different on

this other one, but it is still one

light.

We have borrowed these clothes,

these time-and-space

personalities, from a light, and

when we praise, we are pouring

them back in.

Rumi

Tailpiece.

Got up at 6, the chores and carried out the usual Wednesday aarathi. Washing machinex of the soiled clothes were carried while earmarking a few for dry cleaning and Rejith, came and picked them up.

Kittu was in attendance but his kids didn't show up, wonder why.

Initiated my project with the second generation as I spoke to each one of them individually.

A quiet evening, thereafter.