AFVOA Newletters of Year 2010

Page 9 of 50 ARMED FORCES VETERAN OFFICERS’ ASSOCIATION CHENNAI (Established 1994) Patron Lt Gen C Sundara Rao, PVSM Tele: 24461085 President Vice President Secretary Treasurer Maj Gen Brig Lt Col Lt Col KS Chattaraman, EME Mohan Thomas, AOC CR Sundar, Madras M Narayanan, Engrs Tele: 22348394 Tele: 22294080 Tele: 22290186 Tele: 24488546 No 2 of 2010 Newsletter #02/2010 10 Mar 2010 (FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS ONLY) The next bi-monthly meeting will be held on Sunday, 21 Mar 2010 starting 1100 h. The venue as usual is the Palm Grove Ecological Park and Sports Complex, Island Grounds. Those who desire to attend the Meeting should intimate the details of persons attending to Lt Col M Narayanan, Ph.: 2448 8546, 98847 54610 before 16 Mar 2010 without fail. Lunch is on coupons which will be issued before the Meeting. From the Editorial Team INTERNET AND THE VETERAN Gone are the days when the Veteran was nothing more than a retiree who was allotted his corner in the house. He had to pass his days telling stories about bygone days to others who hardly had the time to listen to him. The veteran of today is an active personality with a voice of his own. And that voice has been provided to him by the Internet. On the 10 th of April, 2008, at about the time the sun had set on the Western horizon off Gurgaon, Maj Gen Satbir Singh, SM, a seventh generation, 28 NDA course officer sat at his computer to compose a mail. He was a vexed man at that time. For decades he had been watching our steady downgradation vis-s-vis the politicians and the civilian bureaucracy. He lamented, in public and in private conversations at the silent apathetic manner in which we of the Armed Forces took such denigration. But the immediate cause of Gen Satbir’s ire that evening was the raw