At The Edge

Here's an interesting image from LIFE magazine   photo archive. According to the caption: Taken in Kashmir on December 1951 by photographer Howard Sochurek. -0-  "Kashmir has been wrongly looked upon a prize for India or Pakistan. People seem to forget that Kashmir is not a commodity for sale or to be bartered. It has an individual existence and its people must be the final arbiters of their future. It is here today that a struggle is being fought, not in the battlefield but in the minds of men." - Jawaharlal Nehru in New Delhi on June 11, 1951. -0- A Story: Happenings of 1951 as recalled by a Kashmiri Goat

We fight and our formation never wavers. Orders we obey and this is right. At a word from our commander fathers We ride out to cut and thrust and fight. - An old cossack song. Came across these lines, many years ago, in a short story by Mikhail Sholokhov . And we create music. Photographs taken at Jammu in April 2009. Right, the Army Band: Bagpipers of The 18 Grenadiers of Indian Army.