TWO BULLETS CAN’T KILL A COMMANDO!
Two Bullets Can’t Kill a Commando - Captain Jaidev Dangi Tral, Jammu and Kashmir 19 June 2014 The commando smiled. It was Ritu. Her name blinked on his battered iPhone screen. The two had exchanged rings 4 months before, on Valentine’s Day in 2014, as she had wanted. In 2 more months, he knew what would happen—he would be hoisted on to the shoulders of his comrades in his Para-SF unit and packed off to rural Haryana to be married. Ritu sat in her hostel room in Rohtak, waiting for the commando to pick up the phone. She would not disconnect until the phone had rung through. If he didn’t pick up, she knew he would call back. From his team’s operating base in the terrorist haven of Tral in south Kashmir, Capt. Jaidev Dangi, 25 years old, always called back. He swiped to accept the call. Capt. Dangi and Ritu had not known each other before they had been brought together by their families earlier that year. It had been awkward in person, and since Capt. Dangi had no choice but t...