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GRITTY: Gurbani, Sholay dialogues kept him going in hospital
On July 15 this year, I completed 22 years of my loaned life and cut the customary cake that reads: “Happy Death anniversary and rebirth day”. It was on this day in 1999 when, as part of Operation Vijay, I was commanding a protective post on the LOC in Kargil s Akhnoor sector and a mortar bomb fell behind me. Soon, another one fell right next to me. I fell unconscious and the brave boys of 7 Dogra, my battalion, rushed me to hospital. The journey took two and a half hours by which time, heavy blood loss and a cardiac arrest led the doctor to pronounce me dead on arrival.