167: INTERESTING BYTES

1

Ironies

 

  • Politics divide us, terrorism unite us.

 

  • Everyone is in hurry, but no one reaches in time.

 

  • Actors earn more money playing sportspersons, than the sportspersons earn in their entire career.

 

  • Most people who fight over religious books, have probably never read any of them.

 

  • We spend more on our daughter’s wedding than on her education.

 

  • The shoes that we wear are sold in air conditioned show rooms, the vegetables that we eat are sold on the footpaths.

 

  • Seeing a policeman makes us nervous rather than feeling safe.

 

  • In competitive exams, a person writes a brilliant 1500 words essay about how dowry is a social evil and cracks the exam by impressing everyone. One year later his parents demand a dowry in crores, because he is become an officer.

 

  • We are obsessed with screen guards on their smartphones even though most come with scratch proof gorilla glass but never bother wearing a helmet while riding bikes.

 

  • Artificial lemon flavour is used for “welcome drink” and real lemon is used in “finger bowl”

 

2

Funny

 

– I changed my password to “incorrect” so whenever I forget it the computer will say, “Your password is incorrect.”

 

– Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

 

– I’m great at multi-tasking–I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at once.

 

– If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.

 

– Hospitality is the art of making guests feel like they’re at home when you wish they were.

 

– I bought a vacuum cleaner six months ago and so far all it’s been doing is gathering dust.

 

– Every time someone comes up with a fool proof solution, along comes a more-talented fool.

 

– If you keep your feet firmly on the ground, you’ll have trouble putting on your pants.

 

– A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

 

– Ever stop to think and forget to start again?

 

– There may be no excuse for laziness, but I’m still looking.

 

– Women spend more time wondering what men are thinking than men spend thinking.

 

– He who laughs last thinks slowest.

 

– Is it wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly?

 

– Women sometimes make fools of men, but most guys are the do-it-yourself type.

 

– I was going to give him a nasty look, but he already had one.

 

– The grass may be greener on the other side but at least you don’t have to mow it…

 

3

Low Budget Airlines

 

For regular updates please register here –

https://55nda.com/blogs/anil-khosla/subscribe/

163: AIR POWER IN GREY ZONE OPERATIONS

 

My views on the issue of Air Power in Grey Zone Operations.

(For selective viewing, please click on the links below)

  1. Upto 03:10 – Introduction.
  2. 03:10 – 07:35 – Perspective on the issue.
  3. 07:35 – 13:10 – Defining Grey Zone warfrare.
  4. 13:10 – 21:00 – Difference between GZ and NWNP.
  5. 21:00 – 27:30 – India’s GZ Threat Scenario.
  6. 27:30 – 36:00 – Air Power vis-a-vis GZ.
  7. 36:00 -38:00 – GZ activity between friendly countries.
  8. 38:00 – 43:50 – Using AP in GZ.
  9. 43:50 – 57:30 – Capability building and reorientation to deal with GZ.
  10. 57:30 onwards – Concluding Thoughts.

 

Question

Does ongoing military reforms and proposed reorganisation cater for future grey zone operations?

 

Comments and value additions are most welcome

 

For regular updates please register here –

https://55nda.com/blogs/anil-khosla/subscribe/

Also read – Article on the subject

https://55nda.com/blogs/anil-khosla/2021/07/26/airpower-in-grey-zone-my-article-in-usi-journal/

162: GOLF AT OLYMPICS

 

Pic Courtesy:  Financial Times

Golf featured in the Summer Olympic Games in 1900 at Paris and 1904 at St. Louis.

 

Thereafter it was it was reinstated in 2016 Summer Olympics.

 

Qualification for the Olympics is based primarily upon the Official World Golf Ranking (men) and Women’s World Golf Rankings.

 

Total of 60 players compete for the medal.

 

Top 15 of each gender automatically qualify (with a limit of four per country), and then the highest ranked players from countries that had not yet already qualified (Max two players) are added.

 

Stroke play is used at the Games, with athletes playing four rounds of 18 holes (72 Holes) over four days.

USA is the leader in the medal tally of so far conducted tournaments with 12 medals followed by Great Britain with 3 medals.

TOKYO OLYMPICS

Pic Courtesy: Wikipedia

Olympic Golf venue

 

Kasumigaseki Country Club in the verdant Musashino Hills.

 

Japan has nearly 2000 golf courses.

 

Kasumigaseki is the venue for Tokyo 2020 Men’s & Women’s golf competitions.

 

It is one of the oldest and most prestigious historic courses.

 

It was founded in 1929, and has hosted many events world, Asian and Japanese tournaments.

 

It is a 7466 yard par-71 course.

 

 

Results (Men Tournament)

 

Gold Medal: The Men’s Olympic golf event gold was won by American Xander Schauffele. He won by one stroke with an 18 under par performance.

 

Silver medal: Won by Rory Sabbatini playing for Slovakia. He performed 17 under par.

 

 Bronze: Won by Pan Cheng-tsung of Chinese Taipei finishing 15 under power. Pan technically finished T3 with six other golfers but beat them all on the fourth playoff hole for the bronze medal.

 

Other T3 Players:

Hideki Matsuyama (JPN)
Collin Morikawa (USA)
Mito Pereira (CHI)
Sebastian Munoz (COL)
Rory McIlroy (IRL)
Paul Casey (GBR)

 

Indian Representation

 

The Indian men’s team was represented by 34-year-old Anirban Lahiri and 30-year-old Udayan Mane. Lahiri finished tied-42nd with score of 5-under par and Mane finished 56th with 3-over par.

Pic Courtesy: Wikipedia

The Women’s team of India is being represented by, Aditi Ashok age 23 and Diksha Dagar, age 20. Their competition is from 04 to 07 August.

Best of luck to the Indian Women’s team.

In your opinion how will the women’s team perform?

 

For regular updates please register here –

https://55nda.com/blogs/anil-khosla/subscribe/

 

 

English हिंदी