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ARTICLE : BREAKING THE CHAKRAVYUH

  BREAKING THE CHAKRAVYUH

 

LT COL NOEL ELLIS

 

16/IV/2022

 

These days we get a concentrated dose of ‘acid’ poured right in one’s skull the moment you flick channels to watch the news. It reminds me of a combination of acids which was called ‘aqua-regia’. Once our Chemistry teacher taught us how to make it, we would pour it on everything metallic in the Chemistry lab. That is how toxic the mind can become if one continues watching these news channels. Many of you would suggest to stop watching them, but then how could one miss out on the ‘Mahabharat’ or ‘Maha-Ukraine-Yudh’ that they churn up nonstop.

 

‘Air raid sirens’ start blowing as they speak. For God’s sake Miss, you got to run and take cover, but then she doles out that never ending commentary as to Why Putin doesn’t listen to anyone & why Ukraine is in a mess etc. Please understand that Putin is a bachelor and Zelensky is married and has too many cooks who spoiled his broth.

 

Newsreaders catch hold of a phrase and repeat it till your mind explodes. ‘Vacuum Bomb’ was one and now there is one which sunk the Russian Warship. A missile called ‘Neptune’. The anchor would not know the difference between a ‘Bomb and a Pataka’ but would strafe the viewers with a constant barrage of ‘gobbledygook’. Some do look like one.

 

Then there are these reporters on ground who pant as if they have just finished a marathon run. Some of them are ‘veterans’ of the civilian kind. This is how they report with a helmet and a bullet proof jacket on. “Let me (pant-pant) show you the street (pant) light which was (pant-pant) hit by a Russian ““‘dobre utra’ missile” (pant-pant). As we (pant) see a Ukrainian soldier (pant-pant) guarding the team which is trying to repair (pant-pant) it. Notwithstanding the swishing sounds, drum beats and musical effects of a horror movie they add.

 

Some of them fly in and fly out of the warzone to dole out horror stories. One of them reached there prematurely, do you know why? Because she anticipated the war would happen. What happened then? War did not happen. Why did she come back? The channel could not afford the expenses of her prolonged stay. Will she go again? I doubt, as too many reporters covering the war zone have occupied all accommodation. Sometimes both Putin and Zelensky get confused about who is their actual enemy.

 

Putin of course is tuned in to Indian news channels, as that is from where he comes to know the places which are hit, number of casualties of both men and equipment and the exact location till where they have advanced. There is no way his Generals can “pill”. One of them got sacked as he reported something else whereas the Indian channel was claiming them to be elsewhere.

 

With missiles and rockets flying left right and centre, reminds me of the 1988 Mahabharat serial. How we loved to watch one arrow turning into multiple arrows and then a counter from the other side. We could watch it all day. In between there would be a lull in the battle where they would nurse their battle casualties and count the horses and chariots destroyed, like today our reporters show us live pictures of equipment strewn along the road.

 

One used to enjoy when the focus of the war used to shift to the foot soldiers during the serial. There would be chaos, people running helter-skelter, soldiers slashing dummy swords at each other. Their Senapati’s watching from a distance sitting on elephants, like how the US is looking at this war.

 

In between this, chaos in Pakistan happened. We felt the Ukraine war had finished. One thing which did bother me, that except for discussing and showing the proceedings of Pak Parliament live, none of our news reporters went to Pakistan to commentate on the demolition of IM live. Probably the channels had run out of reporters, as most of them were deputed to Ukraine.

 

Of course, there were a few who would invite Pakistani panellists and dispense all anger and frustration on them, as if Pakistan would surrender unconditionally to India during that very debate. Even if the nation didn’t want to know, we were force fed his thoughts.

 

Today even the ‘cobbler’ at the end of the street knows that wheat is being supplied all around the world from India. Crude prices are affecting the budget of the common man because there is a war on. He understands UN & NATO are as useless as his removed appendix.

 

It is very difficult to get out of this news channel ‘gauntlet’ unless we develop immunity or we manufacture new weapon systems called ‘Saturn’ or ‘Pluto’. Is there any other method to break their “Chakravyuh”? I wonder!!!!!!!!!!

 

JAI HIND

© NOEL ELLIS

 

 

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