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THE LEGEND OF A GORKHA SOLDIER There is a story told in the village of Dahakhani in the Himalayan foothills of how a man sent out his son to buy some cigarettes at the village shop one morning in [...]

A GRIPPING STORY OF TWO GREAT WARRIORS “May I have a light?” I looked up to see a Japanese – more or less my age – with an unlit cigarette in his hand. I reached for my lighter. He [...]

A SAGA OF COURAGE AND ENDURANCE THAT SAVED LADAKH August 1948; The Indian and Pakistani Armies had been locked in a bloody contest over Kashmir for almost a year. Skardu, the gateway to Ladakh, [...]