Peepal Baba
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And then army background.
There was a sense of discipline.
There was a sense of timing.
There was no urgency.
But there was a lot of this thing that you have to be courteous.
You have to be well-mannered.
You know, your dressing should be like this.
Your shoes have to be black and they have to leather shoes.
They have to be polished and you have to have a nice haircut.
You can't keep long hair.
So, you know, that little, little elements of discipline.
army thing, it just came.
There was nobody forced it on us, but it came.
And then that very resilient kind of thing, because we used to listen to battle honor stories.
We used to listen to war stories.
My father, he's done about three big wars.
The 1962 Chinese aggression, the 1971 war, the 1965 Indo-Pak war.
He was in the thick of battle.
And, you know, we still, even today, whenever I come to Pune, I ask him, okay, tell me one story.
Even at the age of 87, his stories haven't finished.