On 14 November 1962 — Nehru's birthday — 6 Kumaon attacked Chinese-held heights at Walong without artillery or air cover: the only Indian counter-attack of the whole 1962 war, and a doomed one.
On 15–16 August 1971, Bengali frogmen slipped into four East Pakistani ports and blew up shipping with limpet mines — India's secret naval war for Bangladesh, triggered by two songs on the radio.
In the 1999 Kargil War, Captain Vikram Batra of 13 JAK Rifles recaptured two high peaks from Pakistani intruders, signalled victory as 'Yeh Dil Maange More', and died aged 24 saving a fellow soldier.
A Rajasthan theatre actor whom RAW sent into Pakistan around 1975 to live a second life as Nabi Ahmed Shakir — caught in 1983, jailed sixteen years, dead by 2001, his legend still unproven.
The portions haven't changed in 20 years, yet the scale keeps creeping up. It isn't gluttony or a 'slowing metabolism' — it is that the body's engine, muscle, has quietly shrunk.
In March 1671, a much smaller Ahom army under a fever-stricken Lachit Borphukan used the Brahmaputra's narrow channels to shatter a vast Mughal fleet — and stop the empire's last push into Assam.
On 4 December 1971, three small Indian missile boats stole up to Karachi, fired Soviet Styx missiles, sank two Pakistani warships and torched the harbour's fuel tanks — without losing a single man.
On 13 April 1984 Indian troops climbed onto the Saltoro Ridge above the Siachen Glacier, four days ahead of Pakistan — winning a frozen wasteland at 20,000 feet that both armies have bled to hold.
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