Summary:
A regular at the event held at Laungewala each year to commemorate the battle, Brig Chandpuri will not be there this December. That was how Brigadier Kuldip Singh Chandpuri was in real life too. Brig Chandpuri joined the Indian Army as an Emergency Commissioned officer in the aftermath of the 1962 Sino-Indian war. (Kamleshwar Singh)ONE OF the iconic photographs of the 1971 war shows soldiers of the Punjab Regiment doing ‘Bhangra’ on destroyed Pakistani tanks in the Jaisalmer sector of Rajasthan. Brig Chandpuri was constrained to file a defamation suit, claiming Re 1, as damages, saying the reputation of the men who fought under him had been sullied..