MAJ GEN GAGANDEEP BAKSHI, PATRIOT PERFECT, FIGHTER TO THE CORE, A VALOROUS SON OF THE SOIL

Brilliant Maj Gen Gagandeep Bakshi, what articulation! The words simply come rushing out of your soul in sympathetic vibration to what millions of others feel but have not the means to give utterance to. You are doing a yeoman's job at this ripened age when all your life's experience is seeing through the trickery of the enemies of our motherland, be they foreign powers or homegrown elements ever intent on destruction of our nation which incidentally is not yet part of their global terrain of domination. Your military experience shines rich in your assessment of situations and your eagle eye on Pakistani perfidy lends you the vision whereby you give us daily insights into their deadly designs and malicious intent of undermining our national sovereignty. Your clear vision, unobstructed by pseudo-nationalist blinkering or pseudo-internationalist unconcern for nationalist causes, aided by an incisive intellect that penetrates to the core of contentious issues, makes for a formidable adversary to enemies of the nation who can but cower under the persistent pressure exerted by a sterling septuagenarian with boiling blood befitting blossoming youth.

There will be a great void the day your mighty pen retires into tranquil repose in your awakened moment of peacefulness in the solitude of your soul, an emptiness we are now being spared by your continuous columns which we cherish with all our heart's ardour, and a nothingness which we pray the Almighty who protects and preserves you may defer for a very long time to come, all these on our side, your ardent devotees, while you reign supreme in the majesty of your Self. May the Mother, who comes in your vision as the motherland, keep you in perfect health and honour that you may dedicate your best aspirations, your earnest efforts and your dominant deliberations at her altar where the martyrs have laid down their lives and whence a new India is arising out of the ashes of the old! Maj Gen Gagandeep Bakshi, what an honour to know you as a friend, a fellow countryman and as a citizen who is the exemplar of all that is strong and virile in the Indian tradition, a perfect synthesis of civic and military values! Jai Hind!