*Dr. Manmohan Singh, the then PM of India was specially invited by the French government as special guest on the Bastille Day Parade.*

* IT WAS THE FIRST TIME ON JUL 14 , THIRTEEN YEARS BACK WHEN OUR MILITARY CONTINGENT PARTICIPATED IN ANY NATIONAL DAY PARADE OF A FRIENDLY COUNTRY.*

*There was no Godi Madia to toe-chain the line of interesting parties.*

*”HISTORY CAN BE SUPPRESSED, THOUGH CAN’T be OBLITERATED”.*