Vivek ShuklaNew Delhi, Jan. 2 -- As Prem Bhutani set out to watch the film 'Ikkees' (Twenty-One), memories of the 1971 India-Pakistan war began flooding into his mind like scenes from a motion picture.
Some fifty-four years back, when the war was fought, Bhutani was a student at IIT Delhi. One of his classmates was Mukesh Khetrapal, whose brother Second Lieutenant Arun Khetrapal's bravery became the stuff of legends.
After Arun Khetrapal died on the battlefield at the age of 21, Mukesh's classmates from IIT went to his family home in Naraina in Delhi to pay their condolences. The film 'Ikkees' is based on the valour of the brave officer Arun Khetrapal.
Arun's family had migrated to Delhi from Sargodha, a city which went to Pakistan after...