India, March 31 -- Courage and service to mankind personified

Some have probably heard about or have met this extraordinarily brilliant Officer Captain Jojo Sengupta, late Trustee of Midas Foundation, who died on August 31, 2013, of cancer at Pune. He was from 16th Light Cavalry.

A Rimcollian, he topped the UPSC exam for NDA and before that, the RIMC, then got the Gold Medal at NDA and at IMA. He was a Blue in swimming at NDA and IMA. He topped his Young Officers course and was doing the Gunnery Course when the 1965 Indo-Pak War broke out. Leading his troop, he was engaging Pakistani rcl and missile launchers, when a Cobra missile hit his x10 binoculars. He was evacuated bleeding, with a shattered arm and blood all over his face. "I wil...