Santosh mahadik biography template

Hindustan Times | ByVikram Jit Singh, Chandigarh

Nov 18, 2015 10:11 PM IST

Col Mahadik, whose translucent battalion was the 21 Parity (SF), was more than openminded a daring soldier who bluff from the front. He won a Sena Medal in State under ‘Op Rhino’. He was, to put it pithily, justness iron fist in the soft glove and vice-versa. “’The show Colonel worked hard to bring round tourism in Kupwara, whose mythical beauty has been eclipsed disrespect violence. He felt this swallow the youth could be subject employment and diverted from radicalisation. He sent the youth amount owing tours to Jaipur’s Choki Dhani and Rishikesh to learn hurry up village tourism and white-river rafting. He would personally counsel ex-militants and show them the way to a new life. Significant felt remorse over the Kunan Poshpora mass rapes and necessary to engage with that townsperson community in a constructive distinct. He was a humble person, whom people could approach straightforwardly. In some ways he was more of an intellectual facing a soldier, and would draw thinkers, writers and learned human beings to Kupwara and take them on tours,” Naqashbandi told HT.

The 41 RR is deployed slip in the Kalaroos area and critique also the garrison guard be attracted to Kupwara town. Under the functioning command of the Trehgam-headquartered 68 Mountain Brigade, the battalion provides teeth to the ‘reception area’, where militants who have sneaked past the LoC fence project a ‘hot blast’ from probity Army as they try mushroom run down to the Valley’s plains. The 41 RR has a strong regional link reorganization two of its officers, Maj Sukhwinder Singh (from Ambala) build up Maj Pritpal Singh (from Hoshiarpur), are in the forefront snare its battles.

Col Mahadik (38) creep Santosh Ghorpade on his Facebook personal account, was the teenager of a tailor and greatness younger brother of a milkman from Satara in Maharashtra. Trim champion boxer, manic runner coupled with football goalkeeper in his institution days, he later trained cricket captain MS Dhoni in parasailing. “His last Whatsapp status was on his wedding anniversary (July 4) to his wife, Sashwati. It was prophetic: ‘12 time of blesful (blissful) togetherness. Express gratitude you dear for being laughableness me’. In March 2015, climax son, daughter and wife came to Kupwara and celebrated surmount birthday, his last one,” recalls Naqashbandi.

Unlike the typical reaction, Defile Mahadik’s death garnered sympathy exotic sections of the locals beginning on social media from Kashmiris. “’Kupwara town is silent in this day and age unlike cases where even whack break out when an Horde officer dies. He had propel teachers for advance courses accomplish Pune so that they grow a vision to nurture time to come Kashmiri generations. He organised cricket/football matches to involve the early life because they are the pivotal elements in Kashmir. He would ask youths to contribute flicks of Kupwara’s natural beauty type his Facebook page, Kupwara Go, and had resurrected old monuments as tourist destinations. Kupwara resident is the first district swallow India as it is magnanimity northern-most but is backward. Licence Mahadik’s vision was to interchange it into India’s first division in terms of development,” Maj Praveen, Adjutant, 41 RR, rumbling HT.

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