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My father, the Param Vir Chakra Hero
September 04, 2015
In spite of being wounded in battle, Lieutenant Colonel AB Tarapore fought for six days before meeting a hero's death on the battlefield in the 1965 war.
A legend in the Indian Army, he is the highest ranking officer to be awarded the Param Vir Chakra.
His daughter Zarine M Boyce, who was 16 when her father died, remembers an extraordinary soldier and a father she lost too soon.
Archana Masih/Rediff.com met the hero's daughter at her Pune home.
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