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  1. Babli Shardi, Bhagi, Appa.
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  3. Can you share stories/incidents about 71 war. I remember blackout in Pune. Your memories and experiences will be deeper.
  4. Your stories will help me/us appreciate the privilege of peace we enjoy. 09:59
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  7. Babli
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  9. Sure...will post at leisure....nice that u wrote that 10:00
  10. Watching parade now on TV 10:14
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  13. Appa
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  15. I remember only how USSR was a support. I faintly remember that general Sunderji was in command to Pak army east Pak surrendered. We felt proud of ourArmed forces capability. 10:14
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  18. Babli
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  20. :) 10:14
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  23. Sridhar
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  25. babli pass  on the snippets of memory. long writeup can come  at your leisure. for e.g.  the  planes going over your house 10:15
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  27. Sunder
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  29. ThanksAppa. I invite others especially Shanker to share war experienced by civilians.  Jodhpur folks were on the frontier. 10:18
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  31. Babli
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  33. Shridhar i don't wish to miss any part of the parade, so even snippets, after the parade is over....though sunder had triggered the memories and all scenes coming rushing 10:21
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  35. Sharada
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  37. For the 1971 war,  we donated blood.  We were underage to donate,  but the in charge doctor knew us,  I think because of Vaidehi  being his student,  and he allowed.  We bragged about it to all our class mates. 11:27
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  39. Although trenches were dug and precautions  taken,  but that war posed less of danger as  Uttarlai  air base had come up then. 11:29
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  41. But remember the earlier war,  when no lights were allowed after sunset,  Windows were sealed for lights by pasting paper.  Appa was in Roorkee and Amma was alone with us four.  Thinking about it,  what a brave lady  👌👏👍 ( want to  salute her). 11:32
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  43. The sirens would go on alternately,  danger and clear,  and we would jump from the cots above the trenches into the trenches and back.  The anti aircraft firings would scare us,  as we did not know what they were. 11:34
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  45. Even collected splinters from bombs,  and kept them in collection  for quite some time. 11:36
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  47. Many bombs did not go off and that was attributed  to the DEVI  MA  protection,  and painted hands were put on every house in her worship.  These bombs were detonated  later,  after the war. 11:38
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  49. Remember the parathas,  soaked in tea,  in the evenings  for dinner ,  I think. 11:40
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  51. As many neighbours left for safer places,  we would go to the neighbourhood  dispensary at nights,  because the doctor family was there. 11:42
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  53. Fora day or two  even went to  some family in the city,  but probably did not find solace as in own home,  so we're back. 11:43
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  55. Dangerous times,  but an experience unforgettable 11:45
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  57. Sunder
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  59. Many thanks for sharing. Timel apse WhatsApp . How big were the trenches and how long had to stay there. When your time allows 12:29
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  62. jradharavi
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  64. Thank you for sharing Sharadi Akka!!! 12:36
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  66. Babli
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  68. Like Sharadi has shared.. Those were dangerous times, but thrilling and exciting too! To donate blood was as if the jawans were surviving on our blood only....a very very proud feeling....one thing about it was, that the doctor took us in his car
  69. .A rare ride in those times and that the procedure of taking blood etc was done in lantern light  as the lights were not allowed due tp black outs 13:08
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  71. The 1971 war was a sophisticated one, compared to the earlier war and so though more dangerous, it didn't affect the public much. 13:11
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  74. Babli
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  76. I remember we have a trench dug up in 1971 war also, outside our house, though, we hardly went there. The first day of the war, appa heard news at 5 pm and amma cooked an early lunch and all of us, including our pati, waited lying down in one room...father felt if it had to be the end, let us all die together !! 13:14
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  78. In coming days, we got sort of used to it, and i remember Vaidehi running up to the terrace to watch the anti air craft guns being shot at pak planes and according to her, the sky would be red with the burning shells....though i thought of her as the bravest girl at that time, i even shuddered to think of losing her in case a shell hit her !!! 13:17
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  80. The bombs hitting a petrol bunk resulted in big fire and quite a loss that was 13:18
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  82. The 71 war didn;t affect us much as s\Sharadi said, due to Uttarlai, a place in Rajasthan, where an underground airport was built for combat. The planes frm this place could evade the pak radars, though pak also had modern equipment by then. There was a story about this young pilot who drove..flew..his jet plane right into the pak radar and destroyed it and himself, in order to save our planes being detected.
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  84. He was awarded for his bravery as well as court marshalled..punished...for breaking rules !!! Both posthumously...after death 13:25
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  86. The 1965 war still is fresh on our memory. Rice and vegetables were not available and so, ditto Sharadi, we had lunches and dinners of parathas and tea....here i salute the milkman who used to come from a village to deliver milk.,no milk packets etc in those days and no refrigerator s too.....he came daily thru all the dangers and supplied milk, or else life would've been much more difficult 13:30
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  89. Sridhar
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  91. Amazing  Thx for sharing 13:31
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  94. Babli
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  96. Appa was in Roorkee, studying for his p g course, his friends persuaded him to meet us which amma disapproved, because the trains ran the risk of getting bombarded. He had to go back too an d amma managed with 4 daughters, alone. 13:32
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  98. She learnt the lessons of life in these hard circumstances....carinh and sharing were the mantras then, which are now so rare...everyone helped each other.
  99. Inlater days, i would often argue with mother for going out of way to help people to any lengths but the silence my parents maintained, showed how much they were indebted to the neighbours and friends in the difficult times, who thtew open their houses for us to help 13:36
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  101. The college boys in hostels would take turns and roam in groups to stop people frm lighting at night, as that would attract enemy attention. Strange, they didn't go home. Once, they caught a pak spy descending on parachute 13:39
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  103. I remember tanks....fighter tanks...passing thru our roads, breaking them...so heavy 13:40
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  105. The ladies knitted sweaters... Vaidehi too...and when the army trucks passed thru the city in big numbers to go the batte front, the men and women would tie rakhis on the wrists of jawans, hand them the knitted sweaters and blankets.....to see the jawans was like a big feat..,everywhere, the atmosphere would be charged... A very patrioric feeling in the air 13:44
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  107. Those days, evening 8 pm a prog was broadcasted, ...hamare ran- bankure...our brave soldiers....in the dark black out also, we woyd listen to that, covering the radio...the amazing stories of our heroes of the war....the prog host narrated the incident in such a way that would make all feel proud 13:48
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  109. Sridhar
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  112. U have  filled me with  patriotism 13:48
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  114. U shud  write this in fbook.  We  forget the  sacrifices of our  soldiers 13:49
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  117. Babli
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  120. The two national holidays were celebrated like national festivals in true sense...for days before and after, loud speakers would blare patriotic songs and people would stand in attention, no matter how many times the national anthem was played.
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  122. Miss that now...also the documentries of such stories, shown in the crossroads of colonies... 13:51
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  124. Prabha
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  127. Thx for sharing Shardi n Babli. We can do some of these activities or spread the word if we are already doing. Eg. Blood donation , knitting n other simple but productive tasks , less power usage. Above all encouraging kids n supporting each other. Thx again. 13:54
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  130. Babli
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  132. Yes Prabha, I  too want something like this. One way is to contact war widows association, to understand what all can be done 13:57
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  134. Sunder the trenches wete usually dug in an L shape,long enough for 8 people to stand or sit in a line, width..enough for a person to fit comfortably, depth..enough for an average height person to stand
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  136. Though in the trenches, thsre was always the fear of snakes and scorpions !! Many people preferred to lie down flat on ground, the training that was given to us too in school to lie down face down and roll our neck ties or kerchiefs and keep them between the rows of teeth....loud explosions could jam one's teeth !!! Also, not to make noise, scream etc !! 14:03
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  138. Bhagi and chitya might remember about the war of 1962 also, with china....i dont remember 14:06
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  140. We had quite a good collection of the splinters pf bombs, which slowly got distributed and sadly, now , none of us have any 14:07
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  142. The speed with which the splinters travelled after a bomb exploded, can be understood by the incident, in which a person peeped out of his trench and his head got cut exactly at that time with a big sharp splinter, only to be found vwfy far away, later.
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  144. A compounder also lost his finger like this
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  147. But in 1965, the number of bombs dropped at jodhpur was a couple of hundreds or so ? And only a few exploded...local goddess held them in her hands to save the city, goes the story and all citizens had their hands smeared in mehendi and marked their outer walls with it. Mehendi....to cool the burning hands of the goddess..😊 14:14
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  149. One pak spy was surprised to see that jodhpur station still existed, becoz, according to them, it should have been razed to the ground by the number of bombs they pounded on it , then 14:18
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  151. Sridhar
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  153. :) 14:18
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  155. Babli
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  157. Last story in my memory. 65 war haf planes flying very low...so much that we could make out if it was indian or pakistani, by the sound alone....and so didn't wait for the danger or clearance sirens to go in or come out of the trenches.... Vaidehi claimed she even SAW a pilot once !!, the plane flew so low !!! With her,  went the truth also... 14:22
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  159. Over and out. Time for a nap. Bye all 14:23
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  161. Sharada
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  163. Terrific memory,  Babli  !! 14:24
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  165. Babli
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  167. Maybe that was so unique in that young age, so.... 14:25
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  169. Sunder
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  171. Spellbound.  We should archive this.  Sridhar is it easier to cut paste on pc/chrome WhatsApp 15:11
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  173. Sridhar
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  175. yes 15:16
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  177. good idea.  I will save it 15:16
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  180. Babli
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  182. Thankyou
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