Tribute To The Soldiers of India
Tribute To The Soldiers of India
Not all terrorism is directed at Americans. American soldiers around the world understand the pain and suffering brought on by the terrorist slaughter in Mumbai, India this week.
November 26, 2008 will go down as one of the darkest days in the history of Mumbai and India. Life in the country’s financial capital remained paralysed as terrorists held the city under siege. In a heinous terror attack that the country has seen in recent times, Mumbai came under an unprecedented night attack. ( CNN IBN )
According to Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh, 14 policemen and three NSG commandos were killed, including the following officers:
Mumbai Anti-Terrorism Squad Chief Hemant Karkare,
Additional Commissioner of Police: Ashok Kamte
Encounter specialist: Vijay Salaskar
Senior inspector Shashank Shinde
NSG Commando, Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan
NSG Commando Hawaldar Chandar
NSG Commando Gajendra Singh
Aye mere watan ke logo (O! the people of my motherland! :English), was an Indian patriotic song written by Kavi Pradeep and composed by C. Ramchandra (Chitalkar). It was rendered by Lata Mangeshkar around the end of Sino-Indian War. It was famously performed live, by Lata Mangeshkar in the presence of Jawaharlal Nehru at the Ramlila grounds, in New Delhi on Republic Day, 26th January, 1963, and a copy of the soundtrack spool
was also gifted to Nehru on the occasion.
None of the artists and technicians involved with the song, including singers, musicians, music director, lyricist, recording studio, sound recordist, charged for the song, and later lyricist, Kavi Pradeep, pledged the royalty of the song to the ‘War Widows Fund’
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