"...It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength......" Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose to the Indian National Army in Malaya/Singapore
Project Tiranga (Mission Siachen) volunteers went to the Press office (on Friday) to get the Newspapers' to report about our Mission. It had dual purpose: one is to create awareness about Siachen among common people and then to give them a chance to express their feelings by filling up a postcard.
Gopal was the worker at one of the construction agencies. He used to work as a daily labour and used to lift concrete and bricks in exchange of a petty 40 bucks that he earned at the end of each day.
Due to closure MSRIT College after semester completion, volunteers planned to move out to other places in order to reach the target of 4000 hand-made postcards to be sent to Siachen soldiers. The plan of action includes visiting a few schools, colleges (pre-university) and shopping malls. We have yet a long way to go before completion, but we are not going to give up.
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"Give me blood, and I shall give you freedom!"
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, and some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
Hi,
There are around 4000 soldiers placed in Siachen , which is the border of India and Pakistan at Kashmir. It is also called the highest battlefield on earth situated at the height two-third of Mt. Everest. These soldiers stay there for 3 months at a stretch overcoming extreme weather conditions and temperature at freezing -50 to -60 degrees centigrade.
Sardar Ajit Singh - the name may not ring a bell among today's youth. Legend goes that this forgotten hero, an uncle of martyr Bhagat Singh, breathed his last on Aug 15, 1947 -- holding on to life till he heard the news of India's independence.
Unfortunately, no one pays him even a perfunctory homage at his memorial in Panjpulla in Dalhousie.
This is what Lal Bahadur Shastri says-
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF YOUNG MEN
19 December 1964
Whatever your station in future life, each one of you should first of all think of yourselves as citizens of the country. This confers on you certain rights, which are guaranteed by the Constitution, but it also subjects you to certain responsibilities, which also have to be clearly understood.
Thus the task of uniting the country was complete.
