When time stands still

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These last few days, my thoughts have been travelling back to the summer of 1999. India-Pakistan relations had hit a low, yet again. And, the peaks of Kargil were stained with blood. On that particular July morning, I was at the cremation ground in Palampur. This time the soldier who had come home in a coffin was my brother's closest friend, Vikram Batra, a happy young man two months short of turning 25 and who we loved as family. In the years that have followed, stories of his bravery and the whole new meaning he gave to the slogan, "Yeh dil maange more!", have ...

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When time stands still