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Sukhwant Singh

Of mixed parentage his father being a Sikh and mother Burmese, he grew up in the military cantonments of Free India. He is well educated and joined the Armed Forces. He is an alumni of the National Defence Academy, India. He served in the Indian Artillery and started his career soldiering in the plains of the Punjab. He was baptised under fire having taken part in the Indo -Pak War of 1971. He went on to become a helicopter pilot and distinguished himself in every military theatre he was privelaged to serve in. He retired and now lives in the quaint and beautiful military cantonment of Deolali in the Indian state of Maharashtra.