http://alokk.com/blog Sun, 22 Jun 2008 11:07:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Within hours of reaching the village, Bhagwati was gripped with fever and the village was good enough to take care of him. He spend several days in the village and never thought to go back and find out about his colleagues. All one hundred and twenty of his colleagues had ... http://alokk.com/blog/place-to-rest With just few round of bullets, a gun and a jungle knife was all he had when he moved out dead tired in the night from his dead colleagues. By dawn he would have walked for more than twenty kilometers in the jungle. He spotted some smoke coming out of ... http://alokk.com/blog/escaping-the-enemy Fighting continued till the jungle became dark. Bhagwati counted the dead around him. All the time he was so focused on the fight that he forgot to see that he was actually standing on a pile of dead bodies of his fellow soldiers. Resistance form his platoon had become weak ... http://alokk.com/blog/the-loosing-battle Sound of gun shots reached the British Indian platoon. Dharam Singh’s sacrifice helped his colleagues in getting enough time to arm themselves and hide in the jungle. They were now ready for any assault and were aware that enemy is close by. Had this warning not reached them, probably all ... http://alokk.com/blog/the-encounter The place where the soldier Dharam Singh saw the Japanese platoon was not even a kilometer from the camping site. It was certain that if the confrontation happened, they will also get killed, being both outnumbered and under-armed. The only way which appeared to be viable was to attract attention ... http://alokk.com/blog/dharams-sacrifice   The platoon reduced by eighteen soldiers within eight days due to enemy attack, snake bite and malaria also ran out of essential ration and were also running low on ammunitions. A couple of tracer soldiers had reported enemy activities in the jungle. Apparently, they were advancing faster than what their ... http://alokk.com/blog/face-to-face-with-enemy Due to rains and lack of carrying capacity, the troops lost most of their tents and had to manage sleeping in open. Fatigue and insect bites resulted in many of the soldiers getting malaria. Although it was earlier estimated that their platoon would reach the British army camp in South ... http://alokk.com/blog/the-long-march The next three months, it was only Bhagwati and my father. He was well taken care of and his health improved a lot so that he was able to do everything on his own and the coughing bots too almost stopped. Rest of the village however kept a safe distance. ... http://alokk.com/blog/bhagwatis-war-experience When everyone left and the night fell, festivities subsided and it was just a family gathering. In the dim light of lantern, Bhagwati laid down on the cot with my father by his side. It was then Bhagwati told everyone in the house – “I am suffering from tuberculosis. I ... http://alokk.com/blog/my-brother-to-live-for It was a very tearful union for Bhagwati and my father. It was long four years where he did not return to village and he was almost given up for dead. A strong Bhagwati who used to wrestle several strong men in a single bout was a mere shadow of ... http://alokk.com/blog/tearful-union