Thoughts in Words

  Introduction      AN here is an acronym for Ardha Nari. So, what we are going to explore in this treatise is the Ardha Nari Effect on the protagonist, an ordinary man. Axiom      Every man is half-woman. Note the point. It is not that every woman is half-man. There is no concept of Ardha Nara. That is, a woman does not have a man in her (An aside, I wonder why the combative propagators of women’s equality have not taken up cudgels on this anomaly). The Positioning      The woman is positioned on the left half. By corollary, man is on the right. That is why woman is said to be the “vama bhagam”, the left side, of man. So, those who think the woman should be right, would be wrong. This positioning is also a point for militant women to take up. But let that be. Hypothesis      I, the protagonist, the ordinary man, is made up of two halves. This exposition will try to establish which side is who. Early Experiments      As a child this theory of duality in one intrigued

  Whenever I read about women in the Army, nay, Services, I remember Capt Sathi Nair. She was from the first batch of Women Officers commissioned into the Army in 1993. Now it is exactly three decades after. Capt Nair was commissioned in to EME, being an Engineer. And as luck would have it, her first posting was to 509 Army Base Workshop at Agra, where I was the Gen Mgr Production as a Col. An Army Base Workshops is akin to a factory, where various Army Equipment are overhauled and made new. The Agra Workshop was meant for all West European Communication Equipment. Manpower skewed towards civilians with 1500 civilians and 500 combatants. There were three quite militant unions, apart from a Works Committee (WC) and a Joint Consultative Machinery (JCM). This is just to tell you how enormous was the task to get work out of these civilians and to meet the assigned targets. There were more leaders than workers! And it goes without saying that the leaders do not work but keep looking o