For the military bands, the Republic Day Parade is just a cameo appearance. Their moment of glory comes three days later at the Beating The Retreat ceremony held every year at Vijay Chowk. and this year, the ceremonial show was packed with surprises and musical treats for the spectators. The ceremony featured 15 military bands, and 18 pipes and drums bands from regimental centers and battalions.But it were the drummers from the Navy Band who won the hearts of the viewers . one of the major surprise was that Indian instruments were included for the first time. The sitar,santoor and flute their debut,and even Bollywood got a step in with "Bhart Humko Jaan Se Pyara Hai" from the movie Roja being one of the tune played. As many as 20 of the 26 performances were composed by Indian musicians. Other tunes that were played were ‘Kadam Kadam Badhaye Ja’, ‘Senani’, 'Galaxy Raiders’, ‘Air Born’, ‘Jai Bharati’, ‘Sam Bahadur’, ‘Dhola Re Dhola’, ‘Taqat Watan Ki Hamse Hai’, ‘Abide With Me’ and the ever-popular ‘Saare Jahan Se Acha’. The most stunning moment, as always, was the culmination of the show with the lighting up of Rashtrapati Bhavan and the Parliament House, a sight that continues to inspire awe.
Ten Military Quotes Which Every Defense Aspirant Must Know
ear aspirants, often historic sayings by great personalities make us feel inspired and often bring about a great change in our life. As you know, an army officer is essential to know some ways and tactics to lead men under your command. Such tactics can often be found among the quotes of Sun Tzu. Anyway, I have collected some nice quotes for dear aspirants.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle- Sun Tzu ( Art of War)
I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.- Alexander the Great
.“Quartered in snow, silent to remain. When the bugle calls, they shall rise and march again.” - The scroll of honour at the Siachen base camp
.There will be no withdrawal without written orders and these orders shall never be issued.”-Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw as Core Commander in 1962
I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish a mortar from a motor; a gun from a howitzer; a guerrilla from a gorilla, although a great many resemble the latter.”-Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw
You have never lived until, You have almost died, And for those who choose to fight, Life has a special flavor, The protected will never know!! -Capt R Subramanium Kirti Chakra (Posthumous)
If death strikes before I prove my blood, I swear I’ll kill Death” – Capt Manoj Kumar Pandey PVC 1/11 Gorkha Rifles
No Sir, I will not abandon my tank. My gun is still working and I will get these bastards.-2nd Lt. Arun Kehtarpal PVC, 1971
The enemy are only 50 yards from us. We are heavily outnumbered. We are under devastating fire. I shall not withdraw an inch but will fight to our last man and our last round.”-Major Somnath Sharma
10.Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even until death- Sun Tzu
The quotes signify how an army officer is expected to behave even under the most difficult situations. The courage and presence of mind of Army officers are meant to be implemented by every defense aspirants.
How
To Score High Marks in University Examinations?
You
can easily get 56% to 60% with non-standard text books, but that percentage
spoils your career. Reading of standard text book means understanding of
subject and makes you present in different manner.
According to me “Passing of university exams is easy, Scoring high marks are
difficult”
Here we are giving scoring tips for u, To increase your percentage
1) Examination presentation is different from subject preparation. Even you
prepared from non-standard kind of material that should not reflect in your
examination paper
2) If you answer two or three questions from standard textbook., definitely you
can understand the way of writing and you will present other two questions in
that manner (Even though you prepared from non-standard text book).
3) Draw diagrams from standard (or prescribed) text books because non-standard
books modifies original figures (Due to copy right problem)
4) At least prepare three units from standard book (If not possible go for two
units)
5) Better to select small units (eg: Unit VIII of SE, Unit V of Java etc) and
prepare all units from those units (You need to prepare in such a manner that
you can answer any kind of question from that unit)
6) Some of the questions are indirect in nature, identify central point (Crux)
of the question then start answer.
7) Your Exam is for 3 hours
* First 10 minutes are useful to select which questions to answer and use that
time for plan of action (This process reduces your exam tension)
* Select best answer that you can present from given 8 questions (16 Marks,
both a and b are required to answer)
* Answer that question in 40 minutes
* Answer remaining four questions (each question in 30 minutes)
* 10+40+120=170 Minutes
* Review your answers in last 10 minutes. (Don’t go for many corrections)
* In general, students waste their time in answering first question. It helps
you to get few marks, because if you answer any other question in that time it
helps you to score more.
* Programming kind of question means first explain the problem briefly, write
the program, give the output and explain the program in detail (or brief based
on marks)
* Answering point wise is useful only when you are confident about that answer
(All the points are from standard book and relevant to the question). Don’t
give scope for the valuer that you missed some points.
* Usage of underlines and color pens/pencils is based on your preparation (No
need to worry about those things)
8) IMPORTANT: Don’t get disappointed or panic if the paper is difficult, use
first 10 minutes to relate your knowledge to those questions.
9) Paper is difficult means that Set is difficult for all the students, if you
attempt that Set by relating some points to the questions you will score high.
·Sometimes,
students have idea on answer but often they left question, because they don’t
know how to relate with indirect questions. Let me give an example for this
Example:
Consider SE exam and a student prepared answer for the following questions in
Unit VIII.
What is meant by SQA? Discuss in detail SQA activities?
He can easily answer the question like
Discuss the importance of quality assurance?
But, observe the following university question in SE
Why is there often tension between a software engineering group and an
independent Software quality assurance group? Is this healthy?
This question is given for 16 marks, the way of writing for this question is
as follows
1) Define SQA (Software Quality Assurance) ==>1 Mark
2) Define Software Engineering ==>1 Mark
3) Explain the SQA activities ==>2 Marks
4) Explain SE activities ==>2 Marks
5) SQA vs. SE groups and compare both ==>2 Marks
6) Tension between and SE group and SQA group ==>6 Marks
* SE group concentrates on design issues and meeting requirements
* SQA group concentrates on standards
and quality factors
* SE group thinks about clients
* SQA group thinks about higher management who adopted standards
* Automatic mismatch between these two group and results for tension
* This tension reflects in efficiency,estimated time period, team management,
affects requirements, cost factors etc.
7) Is this healthy? Better to write both pros and cons ==>2 Marks
8) Conclude your answer -
Remember if you write only first 5 points you will get 3 to 4 marks, even that
score is also important. If you concentrate only on 6th point you will get
marks between 6 and 8 (even it is main theme). Better to touch up all the
points said above, so you will get marks between 10 and 14. Only thing to note
is planning of answer is crucial.
