14.11.2025
S: How do you build the perfect warrior?
A: Haven’t you seen those action films? You inject them with a serum. Or you give them a bionic body.
S: It is not the body. It is the mind.
A: How so?
S: The perfect warrior is one that has anger. He is a berserker on the battlefield. Anger gives you strength and valor.
A: Surely anger makes you make mistakes?
S: You can get away with many mistakes in a fight. The other thing you need is loyalty. Loyalty to the cause.
A: Undying and unthinking loyalty?
S: Not unthinking. And undying except in special cases. There are many such qualities. The most important one is love.
A: I knew you would say that.
S: It is a complete misunderstanding of war and love to say that ‘I am a lover and not a fighter.’ In fact, the lover can only be a fighter.
A: We have heard this before.
S: The perfect warrior can only fight for love. The perfect warrior can die for love.
A: What if there is no love in this warrior’s life?
S: You need motivation in life. You rush home to talk to someone. You rush to where you are going to see someone. It is love that gives energy. Freud said love and work. That is what makes a life.
A: And the body?
S: India made a machine. The machine came from the farmers and the serfs. Full of natural muscle. With an insane stamina. A body that can do a hundred hours of work a week for over twenty years. A natural athlete. Strength personified. But the body? It is nothing without that iron will, the indomitable spirit and the audacious, powerful brain…
A: Who do you talk of?
S: The one that scares the cowards. The one that bows his head to The Mother. The one that is the boast of Punjab…
A: The Tiger…
diary of a lone man 