165: Best of PG Wodehouse

 

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English author and one of the most widely read humourists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life.

 

 

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

 

 

At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.

 

 

 

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

 

 

 

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say “when”.

 

 

I always advise people never to give advice.

 

 

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life’s gas-pipe with a lighted candle.

 

 

 

It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn’t.

 

 

And she has got brains enough for two, which is exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.

 

 

When I see lovers’ names carved on trees, I don’t think it’s sweet. I only wonder how many people bring a knife on a date .

 

 

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

 

 

It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.

 

 

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

 

 

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

 

 

You’re one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It’s a great gift.

 

 

Every day you seem to know less and less about more and more.

 

 

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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

 

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Also read – Article on the subject

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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?

 

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