The daredevil fighter pilot who survived a Pakistani bullet

September 09, 2015 16:05

Flying Officer Dilip K Parulkar won a gallantry medal in the 1965 War. Five years later, he spent more than a year as a prisoner of war in Pakistan after the 1971 war. He escaped, but was recaptured on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Sitting in his home office in Pune, with a framed citation for his distinguished service and a model of the Hunter aircraft he flew in the '65 war, the flying ace looks back at those heady days 50 years ago. Read the interview with Archana Masih/Rediff.com.

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