India, Nov. 30 -- Past fortnight brought back the pain of the 1962 Sino-Indian conflict going back to the film called Haqeeqat and the brave soldier played by a young Phagwara boy who shone as Dharmendra in Indian cinema

They were just a few as compared to the Chinese army and it was this bravado which led well known poet Kavi Pradip to write the song which was to become the anthem 'Ai mere watan ke logo, Zara ankh mein bhar lo pani, Jo shahid huye hain unki, Zara yaad karo kurbani', to the disheartened Indians, sung by Lata Mangeshkar at the Republic Day Parade that followed the debacle of 1962. The bravery of the company commander was marked by the fact that, in spite of being outnumbered by the Chinese, moved from post to post managin...