Bull's Eye July 2009 I was at the movies yesterday. The national anthem, now mandatorily shown in Mumbai, version with Siachen as the background is not only breathtaking but a hair raising experience for me every single time I see it. I can literally feel the chilled snowy breeze right in to my face when I stand in respect of the tricolour and one cannot help respect our brave soldiers and officers who fortify and defend the highest altitude war theatre anywhere in the world. Siachen, which incidentally means Wild Rose or Black Rose, is acknowledged for its ferocious clime with extreme temperatures reaching - 40 deg Celsius and blizzard speeds reckoned to be at 300 km an hour - twice as fast as a Shoaib Akhtar delivery, never mind that the soldier is perched on a slippery and unfriendly terrain glacier. It has been estimated that the Indian army spends in excess of Rs 5 crores p...