AFOVA New Letter 2 of Year 2021

Section 7 – Panorama CV 2 No. 02 / 2021 Page 287 of 332 "Kaka, are you there?” Satyajit was bringing me back to the present. "Yes, I shall be there, by evening", I was telling him. My second son, Debu, now a Colonel in the Army, Satyajit and I were standing next to the coffin that was about to be lowered. She had breathed her last not before she met me and the Pastor. The pastor who had gone old and was in the retreat in Dacca made special efforts to come. She chose to be buried and not cremated, in deference to the refuge the Missionary head had given. Yet, her clear instruction was not to erect a cross over her grave. She didn't want to be anywhere in the vicinity of a cross. We are not to know that it was the Cross in gold that came closest to her eyes, again and again, every time, the new Garrison Commander had bent forward to trouble her. About the Author Born in Coimbatore and educated in Chennai, Wg Cdr Sundaram Krishnamurthy became part of IAF, through 31st course, NDA. Flew helicopters from 1967 to 1990 while in the Air Force right through the 1971 War, and to all regions including South Pole. He served in the Squadron that flew extensively in the Eastern Sector. The charter and off-shore flying continued in civil too. After active flying, he concentrated on Flight Safety, Aviation Security and Quality (ISO). Has been part of several audit on the above. After serving as Chief of Flight Safety in two of the Juhu based off-shore companies, he has settled in Mumbai and can be contacted on <sukrani1946@gmail.com >. He has been writing about the war of 1971 and life in general since 1994 and writes at times as Sudhir Kumar Khanna.