SAM BAHADUR !
REVIEWED BY: ARINDAM SAIN
’Jung asaan kab hoti hain ? ’ ’Hum rahe ya naa rahe, hamari ish wardi ki gaurav hamesha rahega.’ ’Tumhari jagah Front pe hain, baaki soldiers ke saath.’ ’Jung sirf Front pe hee nahi larrhi jaati.’ ’Amritsar ki paidaaish hoon, biwi Bombay ki hain, Delhi mein kaam karta hoon, isse jyada Indian kya ho sakta hoon.’ Welcome to the British Indian Army’. ’Guards, General salute ! Present Arms ! Ground Arms ! ’ Haruka Gurung of the Gorkha Rifles gave him a new name and the female reporter made a note of it ! ’Joh kahete hain, usse darr nahi, ya toh jhoote hain, ya phir Gorkha.’ What should be the name of the baby ? ’Woh chor ka naam bhi Cyrus tha ! ’ ’Gentleman hoon, lekin gentleman hone ka vaada nahi kar sakta.’ Punishment due to indiscipline in Mussoorie in the year of 1933 ! Boxing Ring mein Tikka Khan uth na paaya. ’You are a Piffer now’. Transfer posting at Ferozepur ! Lahore ke party mein Silloo ko dekhne ke baad, yeh dil silly na raha. ’Itni si baat, dekho na, dastaan ho gayi.’ World War-II started in the year of 1942. Around 50 soldiers died due to misunderstanding. ’Agar Rangoon gira, toh hum gire.’ It was British Vs Japan regarding that Sittang Bridge.
’Jo bole so nihaal, sat Sri Akaal.’ Meher Singh disobeyed the order of Mr.Manekshaw to save Mr.Manekshaw only. ’Anyone with this sense of humour is worth life saving.’ ’Nine bullets ! ’ Major Cowan awarded him an immediate military cross. The famous Kashmiri Pandit, Motilal Nehru’s granddaughter, Indira Nehru got married to Feroze Jehangir Ghandy in 1942. ’Parsees do make good husbands.’ Later on, to retain the Hindu sentiment and votebank, Jawaharlal Nehru forced Feroze to change his surname from Ghandy to Gandhi. Just a few months before India’s independence, Major Yahya Khan got invited to the dinner party. ’Jung aurat o bura khwaab deti hain.’ The British Government before handing over India to the Indians sowed the poisonous tree of communalism. ’Kya keemat laagayi hain azaadi ki ! ’ Woh azaadi nahi, batwaara hee tha, naa jaane kitne maasum log maare gaye, naa jaane kitne log ghar se beghar ho gaye. Raat o raat, dosti bhi dushmani mein badal gayi. ’Bike rakhlo, 1500 rupiya.’ Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel understood all the tricks of Lord Mountbatten. Vappala Pangunni Menon and Manekshaw were sent to Srinagar.
Aap rajneeti sambhaliye, jung humlog sambhalte hain. Maharaja Hari Singh signed the agreement and Kashmir became a part of India on 27th October 1947. The newspaper headline, ’Kashmir accedes to India’. ’Mission aap ka accomplish huya hain, hamara toh aab shuru hoga.’ The Indian Army entered Kashmir to protect all the Kashmiris from the Pakistani invaders. In 1959, in the Defence Services Staff College at Wellington town of Tamil Nadu, office politics started. ’DSSC mein Army Officers train kiye jaate hain, politicians nahi.’ The escalation by Mr. Kaul was found to be baseless, it was just an act of jealousy. In the year of 1962, the Chinese soldiers started to invade the Assam and Ladakh areas by saying, ’Hindi Chini bhai bhai.’ Jawaharlal Nehru as a Prime Minister looked helpless regarding the attack by the Chinese soldiers in Bomdila of Assam as his government has never focused on infrastructure development in border areas. Indira slammed her own father for not focusing on modernization of the defence sector. His next posting is in Tezpur, Assam. ’Gentleman, there will be no more withdrawals.’ ’They don’t want ’normal’, Minister, they want to win.’ ’Badri Vishal Lal ki Jai.’ Chinese troops got a befitting reply from the Indian soldiers.
The first Prime Minister of India died due to the heart attack. In 1964, some civil unrest took place in Calcutta ! ’Aagli posting kahan chahte ho ? ’ ’Eastern Command hee mila tha tumhe.’ Captain ka bhi baap hota hain Major General. Salute ka har jawaab salute se hee dena padega. While sitting at the Eastern Command Headquarter, Fort William of Calcutta, he received the news that Indira Gandhi became the third Prime Minister of India by defeating Morarji Desai in the Lok Sabha election. In 1966, Mizo National Front created some problems in the Mizo Hills. ’Agar paltan ko banduk nahi uthani, toh haath mein churiya pehen le.’ All MNF militants have been gunned down, though, Brigadier Miram lost his son. The Lieutenant General Manekshaw has been awarded the ’Padma Bhushan’ award. In the year of 1969, Yahya Khan became the President of Pakistan and immediately suspended the Pakistan Constitution and imposed martial law. The Chief of Army Staff had an outstanding idea. ’Ex-Serviceman must have a minimum pension plan, yeh unka haq hain.’ Dippy learned something ! ’Ek aadmi chaahe kitna bhi jung jeet le, ek aurat ke dimaag ko takkar nahi de sakta.’
’You kiss your own sweetheart, I will kiss mine.’
Unrest in East Pakistan started as the Bengali Muslims demand for freedom from the tortures of Urdu speaking Muslims of West Pakistan. Sheikh Mujibur Rahaman was leading from the front. ’Ebaar er sangram, amader mukti r sangram’. On 25th March 1971, several students of Dhaka University were killed by the West Pakistan Army. Tikka Khan was the ’Butcher of Balochistan’, and in 1971, became the ’Butcher of Bengal.’ Around 7 million Bengali Muslims of East Pakistan have entered India through Bengal, Assam and Tripura as refugees to save themselves from the soldiers of West Pakistan. Indira Gandhi was an expert in International diplomacy and gave a green signal. ’Badhte chalo, badhte chalo, ruk na nahi, jhuk na nahi, badhte chalo.’ On 3rd December 1971, the Pakistani soldiers made an attack in Jammu by crossing the Chenab river. They also made attacks on all the air fields of the Indian Air Force.’Yaad rahe, Pakistan ko yeh jung hamesha yaad rahena chahiye.’ The Indian Air Force took the sweet revenge in style by entering into the Pakistan soil and destroyed all their air fields and war tanks.
The Indian Navy made such an attack on the Karachi Port that it became non operational for 48 hours or so. Finally, the Indian Army entered Dhaka; the Indian Navy captured all the ports of East Pakistan; all the air fields of East Pakistan have been destroyed by the Indian Air Force. The Pakistani soldiers in East Pakistan surrendered in front of the Indian Armed Forces. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto still took an aggressive stance at the UN Security Council meeting. Even in the western front, the Pakistani soldiers were forced to march backwards with a humiliating defeat. Indira Gandhi did one blunder by declaring Bangladesh as a nation instead of making it an Union Territory of India. ’Yahya ne mera bike ka paisa nahi diya tha, isiliye maine uska adha mulk le liya.’ Just before 15 days of his retirement, he got promoted and became the 1st Field Marshal of India with effect from 1st January 1973. ’Kya Banda hain yeh, Rab ka Banda hain yeh, sab ka Banda hain yeh.’ ’A Field Marshal is always on duty, Sweetie.’ ’I am Ok and everything will be Ok’ because I am Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw. ’Lekin yeh naam mera favourite hain, "SAM BAHADUR"’.