COL.S.K.MAZUMDAR. by Sipra Roy
Col.S.K. Mazumdar is my cousin brother.He is the eldest son of my eldest Uncle .He is now of ninety plus ;surviving on daily dialysis and home-care nursing of Defense, under the doctor who is his own second daughter.
His life is very interesting, full of astounding and hair raising stories. I know little of it ; Much of his life remains invisible like Atlantis. in the family . He joined Indian Military Defence (in infantry as 'Jawan') at the early age of 17//or,18 , without the permission of parents or family .
But recently he sent me his that part of biography which is based after joining in the Indian Defense as 'Jawan" in Infantry and with extra-ordinary merit and diligence and hard-working ,was promoted to the rank of Colnel. He actively involved in all, (-perhaps three) Peace wars, China war, East Pakistan to give birth of (=Bangladesh ),North-East Front Guerrilla war and many more .....his life was full of wars; dedicated for the loyalty of the country and for the family as well as extended family .
He has sent me the hand written pdf of 135 pages of his life highlighting not only on wars , but about the human love which is so Devine that even in battlefield how it wins over , crushing the cruelty, defeating enmity.
These are the amazing true stories in this mundane earth about the battlefield, not taken from the Bible page !
*Subodh got a part time job of salesman in a reputed stationary Shop of the New Market which was then known as Haq market ( which was as prestigious as 'Harods' in London.)He continued this job until his result of Matriculation came out .
Subodh was a good story-teller. .During. his vacation he used to come always first to my parent's house. Though I was a kid of 8/9 years yet he, unlike other elders, shared his own experiences of war -stories seriously with the kids . We loved to hear those true stories of patriotism. He served us those hair -raising stories piled with lots of humor .
In his young age he was handsome, with sharp feature and tall figure ;but he looked thin in proportion to his height. He was tired of listening from all ,"You are so thin; you need to take proper food and health care .
He narrated us :
" Every night I used to steal and grab healthy items like butter, jam jelly biscuits ,cheese ,nuts , horlics etc before closing the store at night and within short period gained marvelous health improvement with those stolen stuff!"
We kids laughed a lot to hear this truthful confession; the team of boy-kids enjoyed to think that boys like 'jawan' in defense also can steal once in early life !
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