Can you hear a pin drop?What is the meaning of pin drop silence?Following are some instances when silence could speak louder than voice.Take 1:Field Marshal Sam Bahadur Maneckshaw once started addressing a public meeting atAhmedabad in English. The crowd started chanting,"Speak in Gujarati. We will hear you only if you speak in Gujarati."Field Marshal Sam Bahadur Maneckshaw stopped.Swept the audience with a hard stare and replied,"Friends, I have fought many a battle in my long career. I havelearned Punjabi from men of the Sikh Regiment; Marathi fromthe Maratha Regiment; Tamil from the men of the Madras Sappers;Bengali from the men of the Bengal Sappers, Hindi from the Bihar Regiment; andeven Nepali from the Gurkha Regiment. Unfortunately there was nosoldier from Gujarat from whom I could have learned Gujarati.".............You could have heard a pin drop--------------------------------------------------Take 2:JFK'S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early60's when Charles DeGaule, the French President, decided to pull out of NATO.DeGaule said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible.Rusk responded, "does that include the 180,000 who are buried here ?"DeGaule could not respond.You could have heard a pin drop-------------------------------------------------Take 3:Robert Whiting, an elderly US gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane.At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on."You have been to France before, Monsieur ?",the Customs officer asked sarcastically.Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously."Then you should know enough to have your passport ready."The American said,"The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it.""Impossible. Americans always have to show their passportson arrival in France !" , the Customs officer sneered.The American senior gave the Frenchman a long, hard look.Then he quietly explained ..."Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach, at 4:40am, on D-Day in 1944,to help liberate your country, I couldn't find a single Frenchman to show a passport to.... "You could have heard a pin drop--------------------------Take 4:Soon after getting freedom from British rule in 1947,the de-facto prime minister of India, Jawahar Lal Nehru called ameeting of senior Army Officers to select the first General of the Indian army.Nehru proposed"I think we should appoint a British officer as a General ofThe Indian Army, as we don't have enough experience to lead the same."Having learned under the British, only to serve and rarely to lead,all the civilians and men in uniform present nodded their heads in agreement.However one senior officer, Nathu Singh Rathore, asked forpermission to speak. Nehru was a bit taken aback by theindependent streak of the officer, though, he asked him to speak freely.Rathore said,"You see, sir, we don't have enough experience to lead a nation too,so shouldn't we appoint a British person as the first Prime Minister of India?"You could hear a pin drop.After a pregnant pause, Nehru asked Rathore,"Are you ready to be the first General of The Indian Army?"........Rathore declined the offer saying"Sir, we have a very talented army officer, my senior, Lt. Gen. Cariappa,who is the most deserving among us."This is how the brilliant Gen. Cariappa became the first General andRathore the first ever Lt. General of the Indian Army.
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