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Hero

Updated: Jul 24

By Parvathy Thrideep


Hero

"ഇതാ അമ്മ അച്ഛനായിട്ട് ഓണത്തിന് വാങ്ങിയ മുണ്ട്", said the five year old joyfully , amidst the assembled mourners, while placing the neatly folded mundu on her father's Tiranga draped coffin.


Running towards her tearful mother she declared with a gleaming smile and a twinkle in her eyes,"I want to be a Hero like my father". 


Little did the mother know that she had the future Commander In Chief of the Indian Army, smiling up at her.


By Parvathy Thrideep


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