00:00My mother used to say that when she was young, she saw a car with three kids from the Army,
00:07Air Force and Navy.
00:08My mother used to think that how lucky would that mother be to have three kids from the
00:13three forces.
00:14So we used to tell her that you should go for Navy, you know, her dream will come true.
00:17But anyway, it made her dream come true, all three of us in the forces.
00:20Till the time we didn't see him, you know, in person, it was still like, maybe it is
00:35somebody else, it's not him.
00:37It was like that.
00:39Since the day he has passed, I have never tied Rakhi on anybody's wrist, despite my
00:44cousins, they are very pretty close to us.
00:46No.
00:48If God had to give, he would have been there.
00:50So me and my sister, both of us, that's it.
01:10He was a very, very loving brother.
01:17We are two sisters and one brother.
01:26My elder sister, she is a group captain in the Indian Air Force.
01:35That time, you know, there was a lot of communication through many means, but there was no communication
01:43the group captain in the Indian Air Force.
01:44That time, you know, there was a lot of communication
01:46through letters.
01:48So she used to write what is happening in the academy,
01:50you know, this is happening.
01:53This happened today, this was a very fascinating aspect
01:57for both me and Sachin.
02:01The last outing we had together when he was at IIMA,
02:04he was just a cadet.
02:05I got my first posting at Lucknow.
02:08My sister, she was at that time in Delhi, Palam.
02:11So both of us travelled from our stations.
02:13We went to IIMA.
02:14That was the last rakhi we had together, you know.
02:17Yes, last rakhi we had together.
02:19Which maybe he was given a punishment,
02:21he was upside down in front of the company headquarter.
02:25So we asked for the DSKBI's permission.
02:28So you can think of what kind of a person he was.
02:30He was a very jovial, very naughty.
02:40When the car came back, he came back and said,
02:45I got selected.
02:47We were very happy.
02:49I said, who are you?
02:50He said, I'm in the army.
03:05He took me to the starting line of the post-its.
03:09After Kargil, I went to Amar post, CHM.
03:14There was a bombardment there.
03:16So he sent me to Kargil and then I went to CHM.
03:23He was at CHM, so we used to have that telephone.
03:25We called almost every other day through satellite phone.
03:28He used to call me every other day.
03:29It was somewhere around in the afternoon
03:31when we got a call in the office that this has happened.
03:34And somehow you are not able to decipher it,
03:38that it actually has happened.
03:40Because I had spoken to him a day before.
04:08And my mother has hung his uniform in his zilmera till date.
04:20She has that.
04:34When Rakhi comes, when everything comes,
04:36we do remember him.
04:37We remember him always.
04:38Yes.
04:53Everybody can tell you, be happy.
04:56Life has to go on.
04:57But nobody can share that.
05:00And I understand that sentiment also.
05:03Initial phase, six, seven years, it was really bad.
05:05It was really bad.
05:07We were not able to take in that he has gone.
05:10He has gone.
05:12Now, of course, with time, you settle down yourself with it.
05:16But initial six, seven years, yes, it was there.
05:32It was there.
05:34Now, as much as it is written, it is there.
05:39We remember him every day, every weekend.
06:02We remember him every day.
06:09We remember him every day.
06:11We remember him every day.
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