I AM READY, SWEETY…!

I AM PROUD OF PARSI - GUJARATIS. FEW NAMES….TATA, HOMI BHABHA, GODEREJ, RUSSI MODI, FAROKH ENGINEER, NANI PALKHIWALA, FIROZE GANDHI, ZUBIN MEHTA, SHAMIK DAWAR, CYRUS BHAROCHA, BOMAN IRANI…..AND SO ON….!!

PARSIS ARE PERHAPES ONLY COMMUNITY IN INDIA WHERE POPULATION IS DECLINING, INSPITE OF INDIA’S HUGE POPULATION, I WISH, IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST, WE SHOULD HAVE SOME MORE PARSIS.  THEY ARE NO. UNO NATIONALISTS, FAMILY LOVING, MINIMUM FUSS, GOOD LOOKING AND WITH GREAT SENSE OF HUMOUR.

ONE NAME MISSING FROM ABOVE LIST - FIELD MARSHALL MANEK SHAW.

 WAY BACK IN 1971, PAKISTAN WAS AS ALWAYS VERY NASTY AGAINST INDIA, THOUSANDS OF REFUGEES FROM THE EASTERN BORDER POURING DOWN TO INDIA. IT WAS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO HAVE MILLITARY ACTION.

IN A CABINET MEETING, MRS GANDHI (THEN PM) ASKED THEN CHIEF OF ARMY, MANEK SHAW,... SAM, ARE YOU READY? (FOR THE WAR…)’ I AM READY, SWEETY..!’ WAS THE ANSWER. MRS GANDHI DID NOT OFFENDED BY THE ANSWER, SHE KNEW THE WAYS AND MEANS OF MANEK SHAW. WAR WAS ON, HE FOUGHT BRAVELY, 90,000 PAKISTANI SOLDIERS WERE TAKEN AS WAR HOSTAGES, PAKISTAN DEFEATED, BANGLADESH CREATED.  BEFORE BANGLADESH, HE FOUGHT SECOND WORLD WAR AND HAD NINE JAPANIS BULLETS IN HIS STOMACH.

WHY I AM WRITING THIS HISTORY OVER HERE, BECAUSE WHEN HE DIED AT COONNOOR IN TAMIL NADU RECENTLY, NOBODY TURNED UP TO PAY RESPECT TO THIS NATIONAL HERO. THE CM, PM, PRESIDENT, MINISTER NOBODY HAD TIME TO SALUTE THIS NATIONAL HERO LAST TIME. SHAME ON THEM…CRAP POLITICIANS….!

HERE I SALUTE THE FIELD MARSHALL MANEK SHAW.