Word: garhwal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stranger to covering wars. After five years of following the Algerian revolution, he arrived at his new post in New Delhi on the day that hostilities with the Chinese broke out. He found that many of his old friends, subalterns with whom he had soldiered in the Royal Garhwal Rifles, were now battalion commanders or higher in the front lines against the Chinese. Scarcely had Behr arrived before he was on his way to the forward headquarters at Tezpur. Soldier to soldier, an Indian commander told him: "We are hanging by our eyelashes." Emergency living conditions in Tezpur were primitive...