He killed the mocking bird to embrace martyrdom
TNN / Aug 30, 2015, 00:43 (IST)
Legendary Param Vir Chakra awardee Abdul Hamid is widely known as a destroyer of Patton Tanks, thus playing instrumental role in India’s victory in 1965 war with Pakistan, but not many know that the braveheart killed an ‘ashubh chiraiyyaa’, whose sound was considered inauspicious in his native village in UP’s Ghazipur district and was creating an obstacle in his wish to fight for the country.