Ravan ke dus laddoo gire: How the Quaid was taken

February 11, 2016 15:06

Brigadier Varinder Singh's unfinished handwritten manuscript was meant to be an account of the Indian Army's capture of Pakistan's Quaid Post from Sonam, where one soldier out of 10 survived an avalanche last week.

The brigadier died in 2012 doing what he loved best -playing basketball in a Noida court.

Lance Naik Hanamanthappa Koppad, of 19 Madras, now tenuously hanging on to life (the story was published before his death this morning) at the army's Research and Referral Hospital in New Delhi, was flown down from Sonam. He continues a tradition set nearly 30 years back by Major Varinder Singh and his band of brothers from the 8 JAKLI (Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry). Read more

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