Bipin: The Man Behind the Uniform by Rachna Bisht Rawat

Author:Rachna Bisht Rawat [Rawat, Rachna Bisht]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography, Military, India, War, Stories
ISBN: 9780670097197
Publisher: Penguin Veer
Published: 2023-03-19T14:29:03+00:00

14

Standing Up for His Battalion Commander

8 December 2021

Sankey Road,

Bangalore 2 p.m.

It has been a long day. Major General Arjun Muthanna, retired from the army and employed with a private firm in Bangalore, finally gets a breather from his busy morning schedule at work and decides to take a break for lunch. He reaches for his cellphone and is glancing at the WhatsApp messages flashing on the screen when he is jolted out of his chain of thoughts.

‘CDS Gen. Bipin Rawat’s helicopter crashes in Tamil Nadu,’ mentions a message on his course mates’ group. Arjun looks at it in disbelief. ‘VVIP flights have the best aircraft, and best pilots and crew,’ is his first thought. ‘This can’t happen.’ He frantically googles for the news looking for a list of survivors but is unable to find any details.

Placing his cell on the table, Arjun leans back on his chair. His mind is flashing before his eyes a series of memories. Bipin as a Gentleman Cadet at the Indian Military Academy—young, tenacious, his warm brown eyes emanating sincerity. Bipin as a Rashtriya Rifles Sector Commander in Sopore, getting up at the Army Commander’s briefing, passionately standing up for his men. Bipin, relaxed and smiling, at their meeting in November 2017, when he had unveiled the statues of the iconic Coorgi soldiers— Field Marshal K.M. Cariappa and Gen. K.S. Thimayya. Arjun closes his eyes and lets the memories come to him, one by one.

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