For them, their officer could be trusted blindly for their well-being and honour. Your own ease, comfort and safety come last, always and every time”. These officers who love their men more than their folks, who lead them into battle with a smile and similarly these men always considered their officers as virtual gods. The honour, welfare and comfort of the men you command come next. Where have the thing gone wrong? After all these officers were selected and trained into the military ethos which is guided by the Chetwode Credo of the Indian Military Academy, that says, “The safety, honour and welfare of your country come first, always and every time. My experience tells that this organisation is crowded with great fire fighters, where the effort of all at first instance is to brush the things under the carpet. The country should be forced to think of the larger reasons that have gone wrong and force course correction. A permanent injury from insult and shame of getting assaulted by your own men is unfathomable. Why does the situation develop into an ugly scenario so fast and regularly these days where jawans gang up and thrash up the officers flushing down the drain rich traditions, customs and ethos that we have been boasting for more than a century now? It is difficult to even imagine what mental trauma these officers must have undergone. Over the past decade, there have been regular reports in the media on suicides, fragging and to add further insult the incidents of officers getting beaten up by their very own men they commanded. We need to carry out an analysis and act fast to restore the shaking Astha. And if this was not enough, the news of arrest of a colonel for highway robbery in Mizoram appeared in press.Īll these faith shaking revelations and allegations of corruption have a collateral price to be paid. The latest in the series being the allegations of the Military Secretary taking bribe for promotion. Well the story of corruption is not so new but the magnitude is ever increasing by the day. The horrific revelations of a former Air Chief having taken bribe in the VVIP Helicopter deal, has betrayed the faith of millions in uniform. Since it's early yet, I'm reserving judgment on the overall series and being conservative with that rating, (the 8 is really 8.5 rounded down), but I'm definitely looking forward to the rest of the season.…the question of, what has gone wrong with our Armed Forces should trouble us more? Probably far more than the incident of beheading our soldier by the Pakistani troops on the LOC. That episode alone deserves 10 out of 10 stars. In particular, S1E3 is one of the most dramatically beautiful episodes of any show I've ever seen, thanks to the lovely guest performances of Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett, and the poignant voice of the glorious Linda Ronstadt in the soundtrack. Writing is topnotch, I was not expecting much from a show with this one's premise - I don't even bother watching any of the "Walking Dead" shows for that reason - but the way in which they introduced the storyline, the various backstories, the human consequences and endurance of catastrophe, are all very well constructed and detailed, dialog is appropriately sparse yet nothing important is left out. Performances range from adequate to damn good. Art direction and set decoration is superb, as is cinematography. From a purely cinematic point of view, this show is excellent thru the three episodes I have seen so far. I'm not here to comment on the relationship to the video game this show is adapted from, I don't play games like that and don't know or care anything about them. Lastly, while insects do gain some level of aggression when infected, they normally do not attack other insects. All 600 species of Cordyceps which seize control of insect bodies do so to force the host into a humid place where the fungus can feed on the body and spread its spores, so if an evolved cordyceps infected a human and over the course of many days transformed the body into a shambling host, the fungus' end goal would be much the same. Even if it did, fungal infections are slow, taking a matter of weeks, and nothing like the near-instant transformation depicted new filaments take some time and energy to produce. Human brains contain hundreds of thousands of times more neurons compared to an ant brain, and it would be an extraordinarily rapid evolution for cordyceps to gain the ability to infect and take over one. Overall, the probability of a fungus of this type evolving the need and capability to infect humans is astronomically small. As with the game, the series' depiction of the cordyceps fungus has some inaccuracies.
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