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On November 18, 1962, 114 soldiers of the 13th Kumaon fought till the aftermost man, and aftermost bullet, in sub-zero temperatures, to exhausted aback the huge Chinese army.We address the Heroes of Rezang La.
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India may accept absent the 1962 war with China, but it was not absolutely a adventure of defeat.
Hamstrung by an changeable administration and poor aggressive equipment, the Indian Army put up a adventurous attrition forth the McMahon Line. It is addition amount the political administration of the day did not aback them.
One such atom breadth our soldiers fought back, and repelled, the Chinese incursions was at Razang La abreast Chushul, in the Himalayan heights.
On November 18, 1962, 114 soldiers of the 13th Kumaon fought till the aftermost man, and aftermost bullet, in sub-zero temperatures, to exhausted aback the huge Chinese army.
A beholden nation accustomed their valour by posthumously arrangement the Param Vir Chakra on Major Shaitan Singh.
Seven years ago, Tarun Vijay -- afterwards a BJP affiliate of Parliament -- undertook an affecting adventure to Chushul and Rezang La, armpit of a canonizing to admire the adventurous souls who died so we may alive in accord and security.
On the 55th ceremony of the ballsy counter-offensive by 13th Kumaon, we republish Tarun's feature.
'Sir, a civic crisis has been created as a aftereffect of the Chinese advance on the arctic border. China has expansionist designs, it has set its eyes like a vulture on 48,000 aboveboard afar of acreage acceptance to India.
'On August 25, 1959, while speaking on the Kerala debates the prime abbot (Jawaharlal Nehru) had declared that India would not abide India if per adventitious it becomes Communist. The aforementioned affair applies to China as well.
The defence abbot (V K Krishna Menon) has a ambiguous accomplished and his present conduct is dubious. He has Communist leanings. In his bulletin on the Territorial Army Day he said that India should not accumulate a ample army because befitting a ample army was not accordant with our morality.'
-- Atal Bihari Vajpayee in the Lok Sabha, December 22, 1959
The ironies of history booty aberrant shapes.
In 1962, Nehru didn't accept to the warnings of the bygone Jana Sangh, believed 'the Chinese can never advance us' and absent face and acreage both to his 'bhai'-like friends.
Then the government arrested added than 400 top Communist leaders on accuse of cabal and arrive volunteers of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh to participate in the 1963 Republic Day Parade at Rajpath in New Delhi in abounding uniform, recognising its casework during the war.
Can the nation balloon the 1962 war? Who were those who fought and died? For who? And to what avail?
One of the belief India can never balloon is the activity we fought in the Indus valley, abreast Chushul village.
The activity of Rezang La, fought at an distance of 17,000 feet, is one of the best absurd sagas of valour and adventuresomeness that Indian soldiers accept showed.
That was November 18, 1962. They fought and died for Indian soil.
The catechism charcoal still unanswered: Why did we accept to activity a war, and why was it that the adventurous 114 soldiers of the 13th Kumaon had to activity their absolute cede angry till the 'last man and aftermost bullet' in sub-zero temperature (minus 15 degrees Celsius) at Rezang La on November 18, 1962?
What were the causes of that war and what happened afterwards?
Who remembers them except a few ex-soldiers and the affectionate army at Rewari (Haryana), hometown of best of the martyred Ahirs who had fought at Rezang La?
Why does no baby-kisser anticipate it a amount of honour to accelerate his accouchement to accompany the army?
["970"]January 2014 - Kerala home design and floor plans | House Outer Designs IndiaWhy do we accept an important alley in Delhi alleged afterwards Krishna Menon, the ashamed defence abbot of the '62 war, and annihilation cogent to honour the men who gave their lives to save India in Chushul?
These were the thoughts in my apperception aback I set out for Chushul to get a feel of 'November in Rezang La' and pay my admiration to the bravehearts.
The 1962 war with China is a sad adventure of a absolutely butterfingers leadership, favouritism at the top echelons of the army, and a apathy of the nation's aegis needs by those who were hailed by the bodies as their saviours.
Neville Maxwell, a British journalist, writes in his acclaimed book India's China War: 'At the time of independence, (B M) Kaul appeared to be a bootless officer, if not one disgraced. But his courtier wiles, extraneous or anathema until then, were to serve him blithely in the new adjustment that ability brought, afterwards he came to the apprehension of Nehru, a adolescent Kashmiri Brahmin and, indeed, abroad kinsman.'
Not alone did he authority the key arrangement of arch of accepted agents but the army commander, Thapar, was, in effect, his client.
Kaul had, of course, by again acquired a cogent following, disparaged by the added ancillary as 'Kaul boys', and his arrangement as CGS opened a putsch in HQ, an boot of the old guard, with his rivals, until again his superiors, actuality not alone pushed out but generally hounded thereafter with accuse of disloyalty.'
Those who didn't apperceive their men, their acreage and the risks complex alleged the shots, yet our bravehearts stood close for the honour of their motherland.
The Rezang La activity adventure is amid the best alarming belief of soldiers dying in the band of duty, yet our schools, which proudly appoint the age-old account of Romulus and Remus, acquisition it base to admit a assignment on how India was dedicated at Rezang La by Indian soldiers of the 13th Kumaon.
IMAGE: Prime Abbot Jawaharlal Nehru addresses a accessible affair in New Delhi during the 1962 war with China Photograph: Terry Fincher/Express/Getty Images
They were ill-equipped, ill-prepared and heavily outnumbered by the Chinese. All the 114 jawans died in action, not a distinct body aloof and neither did they let the Chinese intrude.
For three months the government didn't apperceive about them, about their amazing sacrifice, till in January-end in 1963, shepherds from Chushul begin bodies of jawans broadcast on the Rezang La, afterwards the snow had melted.
The asleep bodies of the Chinese were far added in number, about eight hundred on our side, and it was estimated that added than a thousand ability accept collapsed to the bullets of Indian soldiers.
It was an astonishing accomplishment and the government busy Major Shaitan Singh with a Param Vir Chakra, posthumously.
The Param Vir Chakra commendation awarded to him reads: 'Major Shaitan Singh was advantageous a aggregation of an infantry army deployed at Rezang La in the Chushul breadth at a acme of about 17,000 feet.'
'The belt was abandoned from the capital dedicated breadth and consisted of bristles platoon-defended position. On 18 November 1962, the Chinese armament subjected the aggregation position to abundant artillery, adhesive and baby accoutrements blaze and attacked it in cutting backbone in several alternating waves.'
'Against abundant odds, our troops exhausted aback alternating after-effects of adversary attack. During the action, Major Shaitan Singh bedeviled the arena of operations and confused at abundant claimed accident from one army column to addition comestible the assurance of his hard-pressed army posts.'
'While accomplishing so he was actively blood-soaked but connected to animate and advance his men, who, afterward his adventurous archetype fought gallantly and inflicted abundant casualties on the enemy.'
'For every man absent to us, the adversary absent four or five.'
'When Major Shaitan Singh fell disabled by wounds in his accoutrements and abdomen, his men approved to abandon him but they came beneath abundant machine-gun fire. Major Shaitan Singh again ordered his men to leave him to his fate in adjustment to save their lives.'
'Major Shaitan Singh's absolute courage, administration and admirable adherence to assignment aggressive his aggregation to activity about to the aftermost man.'
The activity accursed the acuteness of adolescent soldiers and Bollywood alike. A acknowledged movie, Haqeeqat, based on the Chushul adventure was fabricated by Chetan Anand starring Dharmendra and Balraj Sahni.
I was on my way to appointment the aforementioned area, the apple alleged Chushul and the Rezang La memorial, in the ages November, 46 years afterwards the activity had taken place.
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The adventure to Rezang La was the best animated crusade for me, like the Kailas Yatra.
Interestingly, the best avenue to Kailas additionally goes through Chushul and connects Demchhok (on the Band of Actual Control, aural Indian territory) to Nyari arena of Tibet, active alongside the Indus river.
There has been a abiding appeal from Ladakhis, accurate by J&K leaders like Dr Farooq Abdullah, to accept this avenue opened for the Kailas Yatra.
The 80-minute flight from Delhi to Leh is itself a memorable one, and passes over Manali, the Rohtang canyon and snow-clad mountains afore affecting bottomward at Kushok Bakula Rinpoche airport, Leh.
The alfresco temperature was bald eight degrees and I straightway collection to a friend's abode for a brace of hours of acclimatisation. At an distance of 11,000 feet, it's binding to acclimatise afore affective to addition destination, and any abuse may prove fatal.
'No Gama in the acreage of Lama', says the Bound Anchorage Organisation's roadside advisory, acceptation don't appearance disproportionate alacrity and blowing in this acreage of aerial mountains and Buddhist lifestyle.
It would be seven hours to Chushul, said my adviser Dorjey while putting my haversack into the Innova. We larboard Leh aboriginal morning and anesthetized through Stakna, the summer palace, Thikse Gompa, Sindhu Darshan, Upshi, Hemis Gompa, Karu and adjourned the boxy Chang La Baba canyon at 17,800 feet, adage accost at Chemday monastery.
At Chang La jawans activity a cup of 'love tea' chargeless to all travellers -- a kahva with cashew basics and broiled almonds. It's absolutely invigorating.
Next was Tsoltak, and Luking was a added 65 km and Chushul addition 124 km away.
IMAGE: Pangong Tso lake. Photograph: Kind address Sudhir Babu
Post Chang La, a connected coast forth the Tangtse took us to the amazing amplitude of a mesmerising authority of alkali baptize alleged Pangong Tso lake.
It's a abracadabra God created for the gods. Tourists are accustomed alone up to this point, and all non-resident Indians charge an Inner Band Permit issued by the commune magistrate, Leh, to admission this area.
The basin is 134 km continued and bristles km wide. Addition 40 km, alongside this blue, azure blooming apple of water, and we will be at Chushul.
The alley is absolutely a check of broadcast stones and pebbles, admitting a lath announces that the Luking-Chushul alley is beneath construction.
A little afore dark we assuredly accustomed at Chushul, which looked every bit a sleepy, dreamy-eyed village. It has a citizenry of 993 bodies to be exact, as abreast by its 'numberdar'.
The wind was accepting wilder by the minute. It was chillingly algid alfresco and it seemed about absurd to advance the shutters of the camera with bald fingers, arctic and algid they were.
At 4 pm the wind got barbaric and the after-effects it created in the basin were abundant fun to watch.
Chushul has hardly afflicted aback 1962. There is no electricity, admitting solar ability affiliation is accustomed to the villagers with a dosage of subsidies.
"But we can't run colour TVs on that low voltage connection," complained the villagers. Lights are off early, usually there is alone one ball lit in anniversary home, for cooking, black gupshup and studies for the kids.
So the accepted agenda is to accept a abundant peg of bounded rice brew, aboriginal supper and go to sleep. The dependable sources of account are transistors and B&W TVs, with Doordarshan's advisedly monopoly. Admitting a few active households accept bought Dish TV receivers, and admission added channels.
I had hardly taken the assigned and binding blow at Leh, so the abominable cephalalgia began at a baleful clip and anon the apple angry colourless to me.
The biting arctic accompanying with a abridgement of oxygen, and alarming wind, fabricated my assignment absolutely 'adventurous'. I accursed myself at abrogation the comforts of backroom in Delhi and added states to ability a abode that no one alike thinks about in winter.
["2179.59"]cool Contemporary Home Designs India - Stylendesigns.com ... | House Outer Designs IndiaSuddenly 1962 flashed afore my eyes.
It's 2008, we accept bigger woollen jackets, adequate sleeping bags, well-connected advice system, a able political Opposition and an alive and articulate administration in the forces. But 1962 was different.
Ill-equipped jawans, bad advice arrangement hardly account its name, poor clothing; the Chinese attacked in this actual month, in this arctic winter, in the wee hours of the day.
In a such sub-zero atmosphere I was clumsy to accomplish my camera, but they had to accomplish .303 guns, blaze mortars and accumulate fighting! I was at a lower akin in the apple with analogously warmer temperature.
They were at the top of Rezang La, adverse Trishul, at 17,000 feet. They defeated afterlife and kept the banderole high, but New Delhi forgot them and sang in acclaim of the defeatists.
Do the citizenry of Chushul bethink that story, I asked with action and waited for a reply. No one could say yes or blab what conceivably was told by his ancestor or grandfather.
There is hardly any afterthought of the activity the nation feels so appreciative of, in this apple which already stood as the 'sword of the nation'. The army's valour has hardly been anesthetized on to the villagers, to the new generation.
Like an aloof machine, some men in compatible appear to the Rezang La canonizing every year, accomplish rituals and go away. Without affecting the lives of those locals who backpack the accountability of that abundant legacy.
It's a hundred percent Buddhist apple and there is a abiding complaint that no one visits them from Delhi -- no politician, no abbot has anytime announced to them about their lives and demands.
Sometimes a abbot comes in an army helicopter, stays with the army admiral and goes aback immediately. An old apple abbot told me in the morning that his grandpa acclimated to acquaint him belief about how they had brought the asleep bodies of the Rezang La warriors from the mountaintop That's it. Annihilation more.
Even the apple doesn't bless November 18, Rezang La day.
"Sir," Sonam said, "before the Chinese advance in 1962 Chushul was the sub-divisional address and the sub-divisional court acclimated to accept his appointment here. He was confused afterwards the war, and it's causing abundant adversity to the villagers."
The apple depends alone on the army for everything; still the affable blow is missing. It's too mechanised.
Do our soldiers at the mountaintop ascertainment posts accept acrimonious bunkers to accumulate bigger watch on Chinese activities, I asked Sonam and the sarpanch. No one could answer. Conceivably I had asked a absurd question.
But the villagers had a lot to say. The Chinese attending at them with contempt, and in banderole affairs with their Indian counterparts they accuse about how the Chushul villagers and shepherds generally 'violate' the Band of Actual Control.
A dosage of Paracetamol helped and the morning was a little comfortable. We set out for the Rezang La canonizing at 6 am, behest conge to a anointed village. I was captivated and acquainted I should accept taken some flowers to lay as a band at the memorial. But annihilation was available.
Having taken the about-face from Chushul, at every additional mile I saw a lath put up by the army assuming the administration and afar to the memorial.
Dorjey adumbrated the admirable Trishul mountains on my left, bathing in the aboriginal application of a beginning sunrise. The fields are all-inclusive and grand, we were canoeing in a sea of openness, anchorage are either airy or it's a adventurous claiming to you to actualize your own path!
Yet the crisis looms ample as the heights on our larboard are beneath Chinese ascendancy and they adviser our activities comfortably.
The Rezang La canonizing is a simple marble colonnade with names of all the 114 martyrs categorical on two sides, in Hindi and in English. The third ancillary has these alarming words:
How can a Man die bigger than adverse Fearful Odds,For the Ashes of His Fathers and the Temples of His Gods,To the angelic anamnesis of the Heroes of Rezang La,114 Martyrs of 13 Kumaon who fought to the Aftermost Man,Last Round, Against Hordes of Chinese on 18 November 1962.Built by All Ranks 13th Battalion, The Kumaon Regiment.
This is a agilely edited adaptation of the commodity aboriginal acquaint on Rediff.com in 2008.
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