A Prayer

July 26, 2015 by Usha Pisharody 8 Comments

O you, or she or he
Us.
Each. Every.

Hold but a single thought
As you daily
Work. Play. Laze. Obsess.

You can.
All of these.
For one single reason.

(Quite apart from your heart-lung function)

You live in a free land.
In Politically Correct terms.

A land they help
Keep that way.

For them, hold that thought.
This day.
And all the others too.
When you can.

If, also, you could
Spend a gracious thought
For their brethren, no more…

They gave their today for our tomorrow.

Remember.

With Respect.

As if they were your own loss.

And always

With pride.

26 July, 2015

Today is the 16th anniversary of the #KargilVijayDivas. A day that brings to me that year, 1999, a grey rain soaked day, in June, when a young girl’s brave and determined step (no more than 8 or 9 then), her mother’s vulnerability, and her brother’s capriciousness, quite ignorant of the fact that their father had made the ultimate sacrifice at Tololing, came to the Primary Block of our school, to admit the young lass at our school. The family is at Drass, Kargil this day, to join the observance of the Anniversary there. The siblings studied at our school.

Lt. Col. Viswanathan

Anjali, Akshay and their mother Mrs. Jalaja Viswanath- a recent picture

Anjali, an out and out extrovert, multi-faceted, a topper at both 10th and 12th classes, who went on to NUS, Singapore to do her engineering. She works there now. Her brother, Akshay, a charming young brat while at school, has sobered down ( I wonder though 😀 ) to doing an integrated Master’s Course in Photonics at CUSAT 🙂

Each year this day, the heart stops a while. It will always be associated with seeing Anjali for the first time, and forever being in her debt for teaching this heart to be strong 🙂 Anjali and Akshay, today this blog salutes your father, Lt. Col. Viswanath, and your family, along with the families and soldiers of all those who gave their all that year; to all those who still work towards keeping our land free.

Jai Hind.

The pictures have been taken from the internet, and without permission from Anjali’s FB album. Anjali, I hope you will excuse me 🙂