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	Podcast:		News and Views
	Episode:		366: Modi, RM Skip Armistice Day: Govt’s Pro-Military Claims are Hollow
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:07:38
	Publish Date:		2018-11-20 02:43:31
	Description:		The strains and tension in civil-military relations were visible again last week (9-11 November), surprisingly during the commemoration ceremonies of the centenary of the Armistice Day World War I. This, even as India’s Vice President Venkaiah Naidu (wish someone had briefed him on formal attire during ceremonial events) returned from France after commemorating Armistice Day and said the Indian youth must know the contribution of our soldiers in the long war (which was not ours). Prime Minister Modi too tweeted endorsing this sentiment, adding he had been to Haifa and Neuve Chapelle, both World War I memorials to deceased Indians. Yet, our IAS bureaucracy, bereft of strategic culture but beaming with disdain for dignity and decorum of sacred military ceremonials (like their turning the Beating Retreat into a band baja baraat) kept the two planned and sanctioned functions, on tenterhooks: cancelling one and giving the go-ahead for the other at the 11th hour.
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