Two months ago, May 2, Major Anuj Sood made the supreme sacrifice for the motherland in a hostage-rescue mission in J&K. As his grieving family grapples with their immense loss, they graciously share memories of the young major -- a husband, brother and son -- whose only calling was the fauj.
'The Ladakh Scouts are a fantastic mountain troops suited to this terrain.' 'Other troops have to first get acclimatised, but these men are tough mountain people.'
'It could have moved from the use of small arms to artillery fire.' 'Anything could have happened like what happens on the LoC.'
'How and if India retaliates will go a long way toward determining the trajectory of this crisis.'
'Pakistan has robust incentive to turn heat on LoC.'
'It is a miracle how a soldier handles the lack of oxygen, stands his post and also confronts the Chinese at 14,000 feet where survival itself is a challenge.'
'To deal with a bully, you have to deal from a position of strength, not a position of weakness.'
'I am ashamed we are dealing with such adversaries.'
'They have done in Eastern Ladakh what we did in Dokalam in 2017.'
'India and China have the wise and sage leadership to steer this complex relationship in the coming decades.'
'At a time when the economy is depressed, a pandemic is raging, and the Chinese are making noises on the border, the NRC could be resuscitated.'
'Right now, politics is operating in a state of suspended animation. That works to Modi's advantage.'
Major Suman Gawani, who served as a UN Peacekeeper in South Sudan, is the first Indian to receive the UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award. 'On seeing the Indian flag on my uniform,' she says,' the locals would get very excited and say, 'Hindi, Hindi'.'
'The Chinese have been moving in step by step; inch by inch for the last 40 years.'
'We are not going to be threatened by China neither are we going to threaten China.'
'India is not going to accept whatever the Chinese say. That is not going to happen.'
'We will not accept these misadventures by the Chinese.'
'The safety regulations drastically reduce the chances of contracting the virus on a two-hour flight.'
'Many are coming hungry and thirsty.' 'Some told us they were stopped from filling water at roadside village handpumps because villagers told them 'tum Carona ho'.'
'Jawans are not rich and their families need succour in their time of loss.'
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