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Early life

A saint opened the Sikh holy book and said, “Name your baby, a son, Dusht Daman.” Kanwaljit only laughed. Such a hard name for a child, she thought. The name meant “Destroyer of demons”.

The saint was right. A boy was born. For eight months, he went without a name. Finally, Kanwaljit and her husband Jagtar went to a nearby saint to ask for another name. A name not so rough. But the saint said the name should stay. Still, Kanwaljit resisted it. No, we must give him something more modern, she thought. A softer name. They settled on Karambir. It meant, “A person who does brave deeds”.

Karambir Kang was born as normal as a parent could hope for. Blue eyes. Pale skin. And pulled out of his mother’s stomach, Caesarean style, at a strong 11 pounds. “What a big, healthy boy,” Kanwaljit had said.

Others said his skin and eye colour looked like a bunny’s. Bunny soon became ‘Binny’. The nickname stuck for life.

ROLE IN 26/11

Kang, who lost his wife and two sons in the 26/11 carnage, still feels them around him and cannot make himself visit the suite on the sixth floor of the hotel where they were found dead.

Kang says he would rather remember the family he lost, his wife, Niti, and their sons, Uday and Samar, as happy and vibrant, full of life.

"I have not entered that room -- it's not something I have done. Even in the aftermath I did not go in. I did not see the bodies . I refused to do this. To me, the last memories I want to remember are of them still alive," The Independent quotes Kang, as saying.

Eighteen months after tragically losing his wife and two sons in the 26/11 siege , he marries college mate in a hush-hush ceremony

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