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In front of action

 

 Repacked into trucks, almost after two days of grueling journey and finally after long marching, they reached their base camp. Till now, their numbers were the same when they started – two thousand seven hundred of them. All of them were Hindi and Nepali speaking from Gorakhpur and Nepal. The regiment from where these soldiers [...]

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Moving to Malaya

After one month of intense jungle warfare training, their battalion packed up and boarded several airplanes and were moved to Kula Lumpur. The place was better than Gorakhpur and he could see strange faces and strange language around. There they got a new set of officers who were British white officers. Their language was terrible [...]

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High chances of survival

Bhagwati’s battalion moved to Gorakhpur Cant and from there took a special train which took them to Calcutta in next three days. For him, it was a great experience and he was liking it. He made friends there and time appeared to pass by unnoticed. When he was not doing duty, he and his friends [...]

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Soldier’s Farewell

Bhagwati was given three days off to meet his family and bid goodbye before his battalion was armed and was to leave for Malaya. He never wanted to go back to his home. Rather he preferred to stay with his Aunty and called my father to spend sometime there with him. Till that time, my [...]

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Sepoy Bhagwati

After six months of training at Gorakhpur Army training centre, Bhagwati became “Sepoy Bhagwati ”. His battalion was to move somewhere very far off to a country named “Malaya” (Today’s Malaysia). There was a threat of aggression from Japan and British Army was hurriedly reinforcing their positions. Germany was on a winning streak and morale in [...]

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Indifferent family

Bhagwati always resisted getting married. His marriage was performed several years earlier. Unlike other boys who were dying to get their wifes by their side and share the same bed, he was always looking towards adventure and thrill of going places. He had seen his elder brother becoming a slave of his wife after marriage [...]

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Making of a soldier

It was probably in the year 1940, when the World War II was in full swing and Germany was advancing on all fronts. My father would have been around twelve and Bhagwati was already more than twenty five. Shyam’s dream of joining army would come true now. He met an agent during one of the [...]

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Growing up

Years rolled by and my father became the brightest student in his class. His achievements were only known to either his school teacher or Shyam. Rest of the world neither cared nor understood the importance of education to care any more. The days for my father were hard but as it has become some kind [...]

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Going to school

Early death of my grandmother brought several changes in the house. My grandfather, who was a carefree man and spend most of the time in body building and village wrestling competition was now more at home smoking “Hukka”. It seemed that he lost all interest in what he used to do earlier. Hari, who was [...]

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The final journey

The body of my grandmother was kept in the same position as she slept in the room the last night. Someone was successful in contacting my grandfather and gave him the sad news. He came running and was in a bad shape. Shyam could not be contacted as it was difficult for someone to reach [...]

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