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  LT COL NOEL ELLIS   25/IV/2025   Our rooftop garden is doing well. Water lilies have started blooming. The other water plants are doing well too. It is unbelievable for people to fathom that a beautiful space can be created on the roof under the direct sun in the desert.   Most of you would be aware that our water lilies are in tubs. However, the floating plants are growing in shallow terracotta troughs. They are called “chatas” in Rajasthan and generally used to set curds. The ones which lived their lives after performing their basic duty are now giving service for growing these plants.   The summer you know is terrible in the Sun City. Scorching sun can burn anything. The ‘Loo’ or hot summer winds can crisp and dry everything they pass over. At the end of the day, water evaporates from the tubs and these earthen troughs lose most of the water. Only moist soil remains as these troughs do not have bottom holes. In the evening, they have to be topped up or else...

  LT COL NOEL ELLIS   24/IV/2024   As they say, “Jab geedar ki ‘maut’ ati hai woh Shahar ki taraf bhagta hai”. (When a jackal wants to die, it runs towards the town). It simply implies that when someone is in ‘deep trouble’, he takes certain wrong steps and gets into agony himself. It also means that if correct actions are not taken timely, then chances are things go wrong.   Another implication of this idiom is that when someone wants to ‘avoid trouble’, he choses a wrong path or when one faces difficult times, he goes looking for advice and solutions from wrong people and places, jeopardising his own existence.   Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this straight away applies to our troublesome neighbour Pakistan and specifically to the thought process and mindset of their Army Chief General Asim Munir, who revealed it in the lecture he gave to the overseas Pakistanis recently.   I say this in the context of the ‘massacre’ and ‘savagery’ these dastards did in Pahal...

  LT COL NOEL ELLIS   22/IV/2025   After the recent lecture of the Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan to an overseas delegation of Pakistani citizens, the social media reacted to the contents of his speech. Media houses of Pakistan who are the puppets of the deep state trumpeted praises, but some who dare speak the truth analysed the impact of that speech to tear him apart for the hatred which was evident within him for India. Then they expect better relations with us.   One of his statements was about the path of progress Pakistan had already set foot on. That means things would look better economically and financially in Pakistan. There would be some relief from the rising prices of commodities. The poor would be relieved hopefully.   On a little research, it was shocking for me to read that approximately about 40% of Pakistan has been slated to live below the poverty line which means two out of five Pakistanis are experiencing extreme poverty. The reasons and th...

 

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