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You can reach her at  \n[www.rachnabisht.com](www.rachnabisht.com)  \nRachna is a 2005 Harry Brittain fellow and winner of the 2006 Commonwealth Press Quarterly’s Rolls Royce Award. Her first story,‘Munni Mausi’, was Highly Commended in the 2008-09 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. This is her first book.  \nFor all those brave soldiers whose sacrifices went unrecognized—you were as brave as the ones we honoured  \nIntroduction  \nLest we forget  \nThe Army has given me nearly all the men I love right from my father, whois a proud paratrooper, and my brother, also a paratrooper, to my husband, who is an engineer. And though Saransh, my 12-year-old son, wants to be a WWF wrestler as of now, there will be no one prouder than my husband and I if he does decide to join the Army.  \nFriends, family, cousins—these men in olive green have been around me for a lifetime, walking all over my carpet and my heart, with their dirty DMS boots, drinking Old Monk rum till kingdom come, driving me insane with their unpredictable lives, and melting me completely with a salute anda smile. And I can’t thank the Army enough for giving them to me, wellgroomed and spit-shined. Gallant and charming, proud yet humble, uncomfortably out of place in a materialistic world but continuing to live their lives with dignity in the most trying times, because that’s the only way they’ve been taught. The Brave is for them all.  \nThis story began one evening when I was walking down the Mall in Ferozepur, the last cantonment on the Indo-Pak border, where kids raced bicycles and red poppies bloomed by the roadside. 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This road took me beyond the Sela Pass in Tawang, where an entire lake freezes over in the winter, to Bumla, where Subedar Joginder Singh fought with a bayonet when he ran out of bullets in the 1962 War, where soldiers lacked everything except courage. It took me to Kangra in Himachal, where fragrant white roses bloomed and the snow-covered Dhauladhar ranges accompanied me all the way to Captain Vikram Batra’s house, where his father sat draped in","cbCaiepWqbGDIWMF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiepWqbGDIWMF","pdf",2014893,252,"English","# Contents\n## About the Author\n## Dedication\n## Introduction\n## Lest we forget","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of The Brave in the introduction?\",\"answer\":\"It is shared as a tribute to brave soldiers who died fighting and to their families who have lived with loss and generously shared memories.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the author describe the sources behind the book’s stories?\",\"answer\":\"The book is based on interviews with families and comrades of dead soldiers, with discrepancies explained by different perspectives shaped by pain and time.\"},{\"question\":\"Which wars and events are highlighted in the contents?\",\"answer\":\"The contents include accounts related to the Indo-Pak War of 1947-48, the Indo-Chinese War of 1962, the Second Kashmir War of 1965, the Indo-Pak War of 1971, Siachen (1971), Operation Pawan (1987-90), and the Kargil War of 1999.\"}]","THE BRAVE - Rachna Bisht Rawat - Param Vir Chakra Stories | PDF",1789949281,388]