According
to the book description of Soljer Soljer: Third Gorkha Rifles, “Soljer Soljer is a story based
on an imaginary infantry battalion of the Third Gorkha Rifles - the Sixth battalion. The composition, training, camaraderie,
and duties in all the other infantry battalions of our Army are almost the same except that certain customs undergo a change
as they adapt to the ethnicity of the troops in that Regiment. So the visible changes would be the manner of the battle cry,
salutation, greeting, decorum in festivity with the troops, or ceremonials in the Officer's Mess. There is no difference in
the dogged determination or the ferocity in the will of troops of these troops in completing any mission allotted to their
battalions! Colonel Mahip Chadha, whom I have not only known from our training days, but served with; has very clearly brought
out the joys of the simple infantry life and the deeply embedded love, affections and stoic ethnic involvement that officers
enjoy with their men. This is brotherhood in its purest form. The story is of Surinder Singh Sahni and his son Jaskaran who
as father and son serve in the same battalion. Brigadier Sahni resigns from the Army due to domestic issues while his son
enjoys a brief and very modern marriage thanks to considerate parents. Brigadier Sahni has to face terms with reality when
he reads about the Indian POWs and later when his son is declared missing believed killed after a skirmish with militants
from POK. His misery is compounded when his daughter in law has to suffer further privations, till she decides to fight the
establishment by becoming a lawyer. The sacrifices made by the cowherds in rescuing Jaskaran are poignant and are noble. The
book has a sprinkling of humour and the reader laughs at the follies of life. Mahip has told his story as an infantry officer
would - straight, to the point and without beating about the bush which makes enjoyable reading!”
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