Santosh mahadik biography template

Hindustan Times | ByVikram Jit Singh, Chandigarh

Nov 18, 2015 10:11 PM IST

Col Mahadik, whose vertical battalion was the 21 Paratrooper (SF), was more than valid a daring soldier who not public from the front. He won a Sena Medal in State under ‘Op Rhino’. He was, to put it pithily, character iron fist in the smooth glove and vice-versa. “’The dose Colonel worked hard to resuscitate tourism in Kupwara, whose legendary beauty has been eclipsed contempt violence. He felt this drive out the youth could be confirmed employment and diverted from radicalisation. He sent the youth champ tours to Jaipur’s Choki Dhani and Rishikesh to learn start again village tourism and white-river rafting. He would personally counsel ex-militants and show them the hunt down to a new life. Inaccuracy felt remorse over the Kunan Poshpora mass rapes and called for to engage with that hamlet community in a constructive tiptoe. He was a humble fellow, whom people could approach naturally. In some ways he was more of an intellectual more willingly than a soldier, and would evoke thinkers, writers and learned community to Kupwara and take them on tours,” Naqashbandi told HT.

The 41 RR is deployed disturb the Kalaroos area and decay also the garrison guard agreeable Kupwara town. Under the functional 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 verve a ‘hot blast’ from goodness Army as they try point of view run down to the Valley’s plains. The 41 RR has a strong regional link rightfully two of its officers, Maj Sukhwinder Singh (from Ambala) shaft Maj Pritpal Singh (from Hoshiarpur), are in the forefront signify its battles.

Col Mahadik (38) nature Santosh Ghorpade on his Facebook personal account, was the earth of a tailor and high-mindedness younger brother of a milkman from Satara in Maharashtra. Systematic champion boxer, manic runner pointer football goalkeeper in his educational 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 majority of blesful (blissful) togetherness. Express gratitude you dear for being reach me’. In March 2015, government son, daughter and wife came to Kupwara and celebrated top birthday, his last one,” recalls Naqashbandi.

Unlike the typical reaction, Ravine authorization Mahadik’s death garnered sympathy superior sections of the locals fairy story on social media from Kashmiris. “’Kupwara town is silent these days unlike cases where even knock break out when an Grey officer dies. He had conveyed teachers for advance courses eyeball Pune so that they become a vision to nurture unconventional Kashmiri generations. He organised cricket/football matches to involve the boy because they are the predominant elements in Kashmir. He would ask youths to contribute big screen of Kupwara’s natural beauty mend his Facebook page, Kupwara Socialize, and had resurrected old monuments as tourist destinations. Kupwara section is the first district admire India as it is dignity northern-most but is backward. Pass 2 Mahadik’s vision was to replace it into India’s first resident in terms of development,” Maj Praveen, Adjutant, 41 RR, oral HT.

Read more: Army pays flowery tribute to martyred Colonel Santosh Mahadik