On the parade ground are sons of jawans, farmers, LIC agents, daily wage farm labourers, shopkeepers. all living their moment of triumph; their faces bright with the possibilities that lie ahead.
BY AIR COMMODORE NITIN SATHE (RETD) The 1971 war. His first mission. The last thing the young flying officer expected was to be shot down. He ejected safely and followed the protocol for surviving in Pakistan. ‘I am Flight Lieutenant Mansoor Ali of the Pakistan air force and I was shot down by the Indians