A warm chilly morning. Birds on their flight for morning🌞 bites. Cute🥰 🐱cat curling🥌 in warm ☀️ sun. After peeking at the progress of birds nest, went for a swift 👣🚶 jog, exchanging pleasantries, entered the sweet home🏠 of my son in law Riaz and my jewel 💎 Tahera sat for some time under garden🌹 umbrella☂️. The mystic sounds of conch🐚 shells sounds from neighbors, smooth soulful Ravindra Sangeet from Bose family👪 🔊 loud forceful sufi quwali filling the, rushed to bath room finished🤗 my bath quickly and rushed to the dining table all eating 🍴for me. Sizzling Aloo paranthas, cup ful of Amul 🧈 and Strawberry🍓 shake automatic Firni in break fast. None can skip should not for the hectic day. I am 🍲great foodi have sweet tooth 🍦🍰🍭🍫🍩🍪. Now, not in Service. No medical tests, none watches girth of stomach. Had hearts❤💞 full, changed to Safari suit👔. Our plan📝 of the day being visit to have my Life certificate, visit vegetable🥦🥕🌽 market and chicken🐓🐔 store in that order. We drove to an Institute multi tasking- from issuing Life Certificates to Passports. At the entrance a burly Sentry with bushy moustache checked my identity🆔 card, clicked his 🥾 boots came to savdhaan wished me with the holy word 'Jaihind " led me to a cubicle, where a girl in teens had her seat. There sat a beautiful girl in her teens. She having computer💻 on the desk, a 🖨, an Iris scanner sat like an uncrowned queen👸. I wished her Namaste🙏 madam. In response she told uncle you are of my Grandpa's age. Call me with my name Sujatha. What a wonderful name they selected. May call Suji I asked. Oh sir! All my relatives and friends👭👬 call me🤙 with this name. I handed over my ID card💳 issued by 💜🅐🅡🅜🅨⁷⟬⟭💜 Army authority having my photo📷 in uniform. On seeing my ID, she stood up and asked you are an Army Officer👮. I nodded. She saluted like a trained soldier. She typed all the required data like a dancing💃 doll, printed the life certificate. She wanted to spend more time with us. Took us to a sofa 🛋️offered water with basil leaves🍂. She entered into conversation with my daughter 👧🏻 regarding Army life and how 🤔 my daughter feels being Army ⟬⟭💜 Officer's daughter. I saw glitter in my daughter's eyes swell with unimaginable Pride. I had an opportunity to have a other look at Suji. Amazingly beautiful. Her 👗captivating dress sense appealed me. :::light yellow🟡 kurta pearl 🔴 red stole. Neatly combed hair with 🔴 Kanakaambaram flowers danging smoothly dancing💃 on her cheeks. It is said if one has judge 👨‍⚖️ some one have a look at their dress. True to the tone. Suji's dress 👗 speaks of her zeal enthusiasm, vigour and eagerness to achieve. Soberity and calm. My short but sweet inter action with my jawan sentry. To follow shorty. I addressed the sentry haan bahadur, kahan kahan service kiya. Saare desh. Foreign ka bhi mouka mila lekin nahi gaya Mas ka dekh baal karne. Pite ho. Nahi sair Sir, aakhiri baar Shaitan bridge ke pass service karte vaat. Na cigarette na tobacco. Bhavana ki kripa. Bachche kendriya vidyaly mein padh rahein. Ek ko Army man banaoonga jaroor. His narration of his last night in stirred me. Tears flowed unintentionally remembering the ultimate sacrifice of 1200 soldiers with Major Shaitan Singh whose body could only recovered after 3 months from the heaps and heaps of snow. He was awarded PVC posthumously. Satsat naman to the mothers who gave birth to such brave hearts. Mother land first and foremost, forever others next. Lt Col MA Haq, Hyderabad