Raghu Raman
@captraman
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Strategic Coach | Soldier | Author | Storyteller | Founding CEO, NATGRID | Distinguished Fellow @orfonline | UN Peacekeeper
Mumbai / Delhi
Joined October 2009
Leadership Through Storytelling Part-1. Human culture began with storytelling. While humankind was able to tell the difference between day & night with the sun, the only way they could predict seasons was by observing the pattern of stars. #MasterclassByRR. Follow thread below:.
Position of stars therefore became the most important marker for early humans. Movement of stars told them about change of seasons, migration of animals etc. #RaghuRaman #MasterclassByRR.
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So, all those advocating that Indian youth should have two years of compulsory military service (like Israel) are reluctant now about their own kids volunteering for Covid related activities!! What did they think compulsory service in the army meant? Drill & parties? 🤔.
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Gorkha, Soldier, Gentleman, Chief! And a leader open to new ideas and change. Watch over us - My Dear General, as you had for 40 years 🙏
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If you had to listen to one man today. #OneTalkToday.Who - Col SS Shekhawat, CO 21 Special Forces, the most decorated serving officer. Why - In one minute he gives a lesson more powerful than all politicians put together @atahasnain53 @rwac48 @rajeev_mp @ragarwal @priyaramani
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A picture of 'calm & elegant' news anchors - a near extinct species now. From L to R Geetangali Iyer, Meenu Talwar Niti Raveendran & Salma
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This is dattun! Neem twigs which the "illiterate villagers" use . Bought by the "educated" for $15 🙂
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What's going on? Listen to this lady sing. She may seem unfamiliar cos she's ungloved! Hint! She packs a mean punch!
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I tweet this story each time soldiers die in Siachen. I don't do it so people will read the story. I do it so people know how many times soldiers die in Siachen. The freedom we are playing around with - is not free. Corpses frozen in Siachen paid for it.
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Capt Binder fought the fire for 3 hours and died. So did his wife & child. His father fought the system for 7 years to get benefits. (MoD said he didn't die fighting the en) Wonder what was the movie playing when Bhinder saved the lives of hundreds and died. Border 😏
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India is under leveraging the alumni of its most expensive leadership school. One where the fees is paid - not in money - but in blood. @adgpi @rhinohistorian @ajaishukla @GulPanag @IndianAirforce @indiannavy @MoHFW_INDIA @rajnathsingh @rajeev_mp @rwac48 @rashtrapatibhvn
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Read these names out aloud slowly, pausing at every name. Read them out to your children. In these parochial & divisive times, there isn't a more powerful lesson about the Diversity of our country you could teach them. Ever! Read the names! @adgpi
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This is Capt Tushar Mahajan's mother. Receiving her son's body. One of the several Indian mothers who will cry for the rest of her life so that other mothers can celebrate a Happy Mother's Day!
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Gentlemen, a foreign guest to our country needed aid, an Indian gave it. Can't this one-upmanship squabble wait until the war is over?.
This too cheap publicity, Mr. Minister? @DrSJaishankar.
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There's an old saying that. "It's not the size of the dog in a fight that matters. It's the size of the fight in the dog which does. ".Sometimes we forget that it's the the thump of the heart in our chest that powers adventures - not thump of the engines under our butt.
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@ShekharGupta @YouTube We should quit whining about how China is making fun of our crisis. An adversary will do what they do when we are down esp since we boasted we will take back Aksai Chin! Whining only makes us more pathetic. Recoup. Regain strength & then decide strategy. Whining is not strategy.
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God sends angels in various ways. Sometimes as SUV drivers as well!
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In the coming weeks/months, heat & power shortages will be a big killer. Govt should start planning for uninterrupted power supplies to hospitals & communication nodes NOW & not wait for that crisis to erupt. Ramp up high capacity generators production! @PiyushGoyal.
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The Indian Army is India's Army. This is them doing their job protecting Indian citizens! A handful of stone pelters cannot deter them
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This, only this, is what a soldier fights for. Rest of it is spin.
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@nitingokhale The deaths because of the delay must be remembered when US companies come seeking access to Indian markets, defence purchases & strategic alignment. Every Indian should start penalizing US companies with their purchasing preferences right now.
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#BringBackAbhinandan There is a frenzy to forward details and pics about WC AV, especially about his background, course details etc. Please stop that! Every piece of information put out about him makes his interrogation ordeal tougher. And he will be interrogated for sure 1/2.
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@sneheshphilip @kushanmitra India will pay a heavy price for treating one of our most serious threats with such frivolousness. This is the time for media to prepare the country for the possibility of a limited war. And from the looks of it, most media seems to think that war is a video game!.
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3/4 GR (FF) brings home the Cambrian Gold! Congrats to 3/4 and @adgpi. For those who don't know. The Cambrian Patrol is kinda Olympics of the armed forces of the world!
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Look who I traveled with just after he got back from Kargil celebrating Vijay Diwas @adgpi @Vedmalik1
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Relatives who attack doctors are causing MURDER by damaging the ONLY irreplaceable resource in the war against Covid. We can import oxygen & vaccines. We can't import doctors & medical workers. Exemplary punishment is a must to stop this trend!.
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The biggest chasm India must cross is not between rich & poor, urban & rural, young & old or right & left. It's between ideation & implementation. We are a nation of contrarianism- best of ideas & talk but poor implementation. We venerate the former but don't focus on the latter.
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@ShivAroor They are never gone. And never ever - just like that. They may 'go' from hashtags and trends. And mindshare and airtime. But. They leave behind their deeds, their mentees, their stories and legends. And legacies. They never go. They grow in regimental memories. .
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Telecalling companies must be ordered to desist. Everyone has their phones on all the time waiting for news about their dear ones or supplies. To call during such times to sell credit cards or real-estate is plain idiotic for the brands! Can't they realise that?.
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Those who have been in combat know, that when the chips are down, it ain't the religious gurus, the Gods, or the politicians who will be by your side. Its just going to be your comrade beside you and that is why soldiers pray for comradrie, rather than any religion. @adgpi
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Well, humanity would have been truly at its best if Stanford had also operated for free & returned the money to Maria or the kid. BTW Maria is herself a bone cancer survivor. She missed a medal at the Rio Olympics & was diagnosed with cancer in 2017 which she fought and won!.
#Tokyo2020 Silver Medalist Maria Andrejczyk from Poland auctioned off her medal to help send an 8-month-old boy to Stanford University for heart surgery. Zabka, a Polish store chain won the auction with a bid of $125K and then returned the medal to her 👏. Humanity at its best 🙌
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If an Indian parent wants to teach their kids the real strength of India, then all they need to do is to read out each of these names, one by one, slowly, to them. That's all. The kids will know that India's diversity is it's true power! @adgpi
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The match was halted due to rains and this young ballboy came to hold the umbrella for @DjokerNole Witness leadership at its finest! THIS is what real leaders do!
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"In the modern world, the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt" - Bertrand Russell.
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He was our coursemate. 81st regular. His brother too. Who's now a Lt General! 🙏🙏🙏.
Homage to . COLONEL G S SARNA.Kirti Chakra.29 RR - 9 GRENADIERS.#IndianArmy . on his birth anniversary today. Colonel Sarna took six bullets, spilled his whole blood and was immortalized fighting terrorists in Kashmir in 2006. #FreedomisnotFree few pay #CostofWar.
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Actually that's not true. The "most" fiction is written in. PowerPoint!!! 😄.
"More fiction is written in Excel than Word.".
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Cops do it every day. This is one of the rare occasions when the good stuff is recorded and posted online. We need more such stories to come to the limelight @IPF_ORG @HMOIndia.
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@ShivAroor Firecrackers can be used to cause confusion, stampede & Mayhem, all of which reduces the effectiveness of first responders and causes casualties of their own. In fact, they were used as a precursor to the D Day Landing in WWII.
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What's the issue? It's just toll collection while passing through his territory. 😊All state governments do that. What's more, it's cheaper and organic!.
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Believe it or not. This is what a beach in Mumbai looks like. Opposite INS Hamla maintained in a pristine condition by @indiannavy.A demonstration by example - that we can have clean environments if we wish!!. It can be done!
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Goosebumps! No matter who plays it or where ever it's played! 🇮🇳🇺🇲
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Even if you are not in Kolkata, please find a way to help.
Artist Sunil Pal sits in front of Axis Bank , Gol park , Kolkata on Wed & Saturday. His work cost only around 50-100 Rs . Children have abandoned him If you are in Kolkata , pls do buy his art. RT for wider reach.
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@ShivAroor Underworld dons get beds while servicemen die searching for it. What's the signalling to the next generation!.
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Taking some time off, after an amazing 5 years with Reliance Industries. Planning on teaching, traveling, writing and some fun consulting till the next road beckons! Want to thank every colleague & friend who made this journey amazing! @flameoftruth @RelianceGCS.
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@SinghNavdeep @arunbothra How much injustice can be really sorted out in the aftermath of a disaster. This is a country where court ordered compensation doesn't get paid for decades in the best of times. .
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Brilliant!.
Sri Jumgo Geiyi is RFO at Pasighat. Trying his best to convince people not to go for reckless hunting. Convincing such heavily armed people is another effort. Your views ?
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Heard a very interesting line today in a 25 year old talk by Earl Nightingale. "The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice; its conformity".
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If you make people think that they are thinking, they will love you. If you really make them think, they will hate you. - Don Marquis.
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@Satpal_Singh85 @Satpal_Singh85 'Fighting spirit' comes from fighting. Putting life on line and leading troops when you might be scared yourself! It doesn't come from pontificating on Twitter or WhatsApp! 😊.
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While we admire the symbolic fortitude of this lighthouse. The real lesson is the grit of the people who built it!.
Be a lighthouse. Let the waves keep buffeting you, trying to knock you down. But if you stand tall and believe in yourself your light will keep shining… #MondayMotivation
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Instead of treating security episodes as singular events, India must join the dots to appreciate the Chinese game plan and design a counter-strategy along three thrust lines.
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@RahulGandhi Well actually it takes close to 40 air force personnel to put that one pilot in air and hundreds on high alert to go in for a SAR if needed. They all are part of the punch which is manifested by the pilot. @IndianAirforce_.
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This is 25 year old story. But well preserved. After all, it is minus 45 degrees up there @atahasnain53 @SinghNavdeep @rwac48 @ragarwal @rhinohistorian @rajeev_mp @priyaramani @MajChowdhury @adgpi #IndianArmy @ShashiTharoor @priyaramani @nitingokhale.
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As @PMOIndia @narendramodi pointed out, #IndiaUnic provides more than 80% of jobs in India. Here's how we can leverage this largely untapped growth engine & also address #unemployment @PrakashJavdekar @rajeev_mp @nstomar @MSDESkillIndia @makeinindia.
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The last hundred meters of India's policies are implemented by these warriors. Happy Infantry Day India @adgpi #InfantryDay2020
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In Corporate India we celebrate the LACK OF SLEEP as a macho leadership trait. It's a stupid thing to do! Role model leaders exult their low sleeping hours as if it is to be emulated. That is a disaster. For personal and organizational health. .
@ashishgakrey @captraman @hr_shapers @ProventusHR @ManuProventusHR @gprao77 @aquilbusrai @sujayabanerjee @sanjaymuthal @rathb_hr @Anand__Pillai @Nathansv @UPIAM @kshankar21 @rajahrpro Managed to attend this session - I liked the way you said ,in your usual inimitable style In India we celebrate sleep . But sleep is the most important in the cog in the wheel to maintain a healthy lifestyle & to ensure a employee is productive through out the day .
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Leaders planning to "optimize" work force (sacking those bottom layers who do the actual work - while safeguarding their own jobs) might want to learn a lesson from this.
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National Cadet Corps (NCC) should be deployed to man helplines, tracing & coordinate resources. After 100% vaccination & amendment to existing rules, this 15 lakh force will be welcome bandwidth. @rajnathsingh @PMOIndia 1/2.
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I don't know whether this powerful message was indeed tweeted by Mr Tata but hunger is actually the distance between the daughter and possibility of broken limbs! Don't waste food - ever. Make sure it reaches someone who needs it.
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Today is death anniversary of one of India's most famous warriors. That it is ignored is sadder for us as citizens than to him as a soldier
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Too bad that the people who REALLY know how to run the Army and National Security, spend all their time on Social Media and TV studios 🤔.
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Practical management wisdom from an army unit. These four points explain 1. Accountability 2. Questioning Status Quo 3. Professional competence & 4. The need to be a learning organisation in the simplest possible terms.
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True wealth, is what you have left, after all your money is gone. .
This is a teacher from a Government School on his retirement day. OMG! Look at the wealth he has amassed during his tenure.
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@rahulkanwal "Game" on? Mmmm You are talking about war right? Which makes widows, orphans, leaves bereaved families and amputees for life. Exciting game. 😏.
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To all brothers & sisters in uniform. And to those, across spectrum of professions, who will toil tomorrow so that we can celebrate Diwali
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When we sleep tonight, let's take a moment to remember, that they are out there somewhere, in biting cold, drenching rain, searing deserts, stormy seas and lonely cockpits. And when they meet their families, the first line they say to their kids is, "You have grown up so much".
Jammu & Kashmir | Indian Army patrols in heavy snow at higher reaches in Baramulla. (Video Source: Indian Army)
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#PulwamaAttack We need to initiate a systematic Military and an Economic version of Operation 'Wrath of God" (military enthusiasts know what I am referring to; others please Google before regurgitating).
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It's a soldier who goes into battle when warmongers bay for blood. Many kids touch their fathers for the last time. Many fathers are never able to touch anything again. Entire families die when a solider falls. Warmongers fight until the last drop of someone else's blood! @adgpi
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@MirzaSania When @MirzaSania plays and wins its the Indian Tricolor that goes up and the Indian National Anthem that is played across the world. That's beyond the understanding of some people.
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@SinghNavdeep Astrologer told my mother. "Your son will go very high in life, he will travel in aircrafts and helicopters. He will lead a chilled life". One posting to Siachen and all three prophecies came true 😄😄😄.
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