One smile speaks louder than a hundred words!
Not an easy thing to do but the Indian Army ensured that it could be
done! Honestly speaking it has already been done! How and why we have
told the readers repeatedly!
-The line I got to write with a picture was โa ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐
๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฌ๐๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐
๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญโ!
- I saw the picture and then settled into this arrangement as far as
story construction went!
-Grief gives you a hundred reasons to cry; hope gives you a thousand
reasons to smile, joy gives you a million reasons to laugh, and love
gives you billion reasons to rejoice. Secondly we will refer to a
scientific fact, a smile is made up of 1% muscles and 99% happiness.โ!
Know itโs true Its true because that is what I can see from the
picture!
-A soldier with children around is a wonderful thing to watch and
admire! That is exactly what they are trying to do as officers and men
of the Indian Army!โ
-But remember behind every tragedy the smile id different! I know how
to interpret it to the readers!
-The little Daisy from Rawalpura (Barzalla always believed in one
fact, โJoy is God’s smile; love is God’s laughter.โ This sad story is
all about smiling! A sall little minibus light blue in clor used to
carry us from ours homes to our respective schools, she towards
Mallinsonโs and I towards Tyndale Biscoe! Though we carried Tiffins
for lunch break, that day I had forgotten mine! What happened she
asked me at thr drop zone at Lal Chowk? I replied nothing dear! And
further said it is Wednesday and i will not go to the Nehru park from
where the whole show started! She asked me why? The reply she knew
herself! I know you get hungry now and then again so take mine! What
will you eat Daisy? The reply was see you till I see you in the
evening while going back!โ That evening was sumptuous! She never asked
about her lunch box and I ensured that it was a lifelong belonging for
me! That dinner in the evening was the last I had with daisy obviously
a family dinner! My Dad was proceeding on posting! I walked to Daisy
and whisped in her ear, โEk Baar Muskra Dohโ! The Muskarahat worked
its way through as we were on different wave lengths but we were
destined to meet again and it was her turn to say, โEk Baar Muskra
Doh!โ Had she be alone I would have replied but she had two brats
catching her hands! One response from her was, a smile is an
affordable way of giving someone an expensive gift.โ! I had no reply
but her elder kid Afreen, told me,โUncle Ek Baar Muskra Doh!โ I knew
the dinner was the next thing up for the evening at Bhatindi! The
tragic part was that the family had lost the head of the house in a
trgic accident at Ramban on the National Highway leaving behind Daisy
and two kids to fend for themselves! Daisy worked as a teacher and
then retired as a lecturer. But the cuteness of her smile is intact!
This is a personal experience but a smile can do wonders! No one can
teach the art of smiling more than the officers and men from the
Indian Army! And now when the Gen-next is smiling with a sign ov โVโ
(victory) raised by two index fingers then it means the future of
these kids is great! That is what the picture with the story says!
-I will put the introductory part of the story to a full stop here
with the following lines, โa joke puts a smile on your face. A hug
puts a smile on your heart. A kiss puts a smile on your soul.โ So โEk
Baar Muskra Dohโ!
โSmile is an act of conquest! The person you smile at is immediately
conquered, as if by an army of a thousand people! You can tell whether
a person is really laughing, not by his mouth but by his eyes! An
insincere smile is nothing more than just opening the mouth and airing
the teeth! Watch the eyes!โ My Dad used to tellโ!
When I was in Wairangte (Mizoram) I developed friendship with Sultan
not his original name (the original was as such difficult to
pronounce) but since he loved the Dire Straits (Musical group of that
era) and the song he was fond of was none other that โSultans of
Swingโ and his next favorite was the Eagles ever green hitโ Welcome to
Hotel California! This one he loved because his father had a hotel in
Aizawal (the capital of Mizoram)! On his sisters birthday he had
invited me for dinner! That very day I was to move on my annual leave
if I distinctly remember! I did tell him that but he said that I will
drop you at Guwhati since he had some work (regarding his hotel)
there! I had packed up and he arrived in the evening and soon we were
on our way to Aizawl! Had it not been Rishiโs birthday I would have
been on my way to Misamari! Rishi was again the name I gave to her
because the pronunciation scale was higher than Sultanโs! It was a
great evening, a typical Mizo meal after cake cutting then a heavy
doze round of free flowing alcohol with great snacks with pork
dominating the show followed by a heavy weight dinner with the
Chinese flavour! Big sized Momos (filling of cabbage. Onions and
minced pork) with hot chilly tomato sauce, Chicken chowmein with
chilly chicken, Pork fried rice with garlic pork, Rice with roasted
duck and the local salad minced fish with local herbs and the pudding,
well I had never heard of it before, apple toffee pudding (Fried apple
slices dipped in thick sugar heated water but with flavours of small
cardamoms and saffron (Chasni if translated into Hindi)! Finally when
were going to our beds the birthday girl gave a small sermon (may be
it was a custom) and the line I liked in the small two minute show
was, โthe universal symbol of happiness is a smileโ! And i said to
myself a smile costs you nothing but gains you everything! The next
day early in the morning we were on our way to Guwhati! We did halt
for the night at a place enroute, sorry the name I have forgotten but
not the lines which Rishi had said on her birthday perhaps the
seventeenth one that evening! But now she is a lady but the smile is
impeccable!
Finally in conclusion I will say that the Indian Army follows a theme
and that is, the most precious smile is the smile we see in the people
in misery! For sure once upon a time the people in jammu and Kashmir
were in โDire Straitsโ! And lastly the one liner which we took as the
themeโฆโฆโฆโฆโฆ..โEk Baar Muskra Dohโ!
