Need to find taller Indian jawans

Rashmun wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

Rashmun wrote:

Why ?

Rashmun wrote:

Marathadi-Saamiyaar wrote:

Rashmun wrote:

Why ?

because its not nice to be starred down by an antagonistic counterpart.

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Look at the picture carefully. The Paki guy is worried! (Or does bhaiyya have bad breath?)

Vakavaka Pakapaka wrote:Look at the picture carefully. The Paki guy is worried! (Or does bhaiyya have bad breath?)

Solanki, a strapping beanpole of a Haryanvi from Palam near Delhi is an imposing 6ft 3in.

When Solanki took his post, he found that a Chinese soldier from the PLA, who would have otherwise been just at chest-height for him, was standing on a stool. Without a murmur, the Indian side decided to get Solanki also a stool. Neither was in the script.

“What they (the Chinese) have done is against the drill,” said Raj Kishore, commandant of Solanki’s battalion. “So instead of asking them to remove their stool to avoid last-minute hitches, we have got one ourselves.”

This restored Solanki’s (and India’s) stature. But it dismayed the Chinese. They too decided to take genteel action. Their border guardsman was substituted by a taller one ' this was Chang Yeoh. The high-heeled jackboots pushed him closer to six feet.

Solanki’s ITBP colleagues decided that the Indian was still taller and if the Chinese believed that they had scaled the right height in Nathu-la, they were welcome to harbour that optical illusion. Solanki and Yeoh put shoulder to shoulder and locked eyes for a millisecond. Then both became statuesque.

The Chinese PLA now did a reassessment. There was little time left, Sikkim’s chief minister Pawan Chamling had arrived, as had the Chinese ambassador to India, Sun Yuxi, and the governor of the Tibet Autonomous Region, Giangba Puncog.

The VIPs met warmly, shaking hands and pleasantries in the open despite the wind and the rain, prompting an Indian army officer to remark in Hindi: “When frozen relationships melt, conditions will be wet”.

During this exchange, Yeoh’s stool was replaced by a small table. The Chinese soldier displayed no emotion as he took his perch. Unlike his predecessor he was not looking sideways intermittently and jostling to look taller. This was clearly a happier state of affairs. India’s Solanki, too, accepted the enforced equality and his turban still rated him several inches higher than Yeoh’s peaked cap.