被遗%忘的军队-阿扎迪·克丽耶

he `]story beg*% ins in 1996 whe/*n Co)lonel Sodhi,;` now 70;$, visits his sister and her f))am/ily.= !*Ho weve r, even after over =-half-,% a century,  `=$the nig
[%*htmares of his in_te/*nse b;\at*tl?:,e and its after]:math often return] to haunt:
 him. O-_;ld-_=
@^Sodhi_) a?^nd you/n% :g Ama!r .)b+ egin to +;@bond and## Sodh(_i)++ a*ccompa%.ni; es Amar to Burma (Myanmar-=] )?/ f%( ?o_r .an as$*signment f$
@rom BBC to^] shoot a -!docu?men,tary on t; ]he students against t^he Mili)tary Junta`\ for free_ `do@
@+m an./*d democracy. In
Sing-_apore, _Sod;_+hi [visits the)][ places which br= ing?\ ba #ck the memo rie+
s of him as a (%,Lie^[utenant in the @British Indi(a$n Army Lt. Sodhi @me/ets a beautiful photog?raph=_?.er Maya who inspires him `to change. Sodhi@( f@:alls in# l-ove w%ith Maya ?]?who joins the Indian National)$ Army._)] O\%,ld Sodhi)- lands in ?@Bur#\ma with Amar, and is we#[lcom,=ed b^.;y\ an +India@ n*;
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identa lly get cau:%=ght in the s\tud ent prot.\+est and firing by the Military J=-@u;n,? ?=ta#!* to suppress:/ the @_student agitatio!*/^;n. When @the sol)@)%(diers of t[#he Military J_#,
un? t;a  _get rough ]and violent wi, th Amar and+_ ! Ran:\.i, (ol\;^d Sodhi is su\= dde)nly tran#.sf 
:orm;ed i?nto th@e young Lt.Sodhi and kills th^#e two/  Burmes^#e soldiers t:o
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o?dh.]=i and hi s( =g^#roup\'s escape from the ? [Bu =rm/ese soldiers runs para:-llel to the atta *[ck by the British bo?mbers on Lt.Sodhi\'s uni
`t. I$-,=n 1944, t,\!he Indian* Nationa!,l/. Army, .tired, hungry, co%^ld, feverish, s$ick ha]d@] re (ach,\_
ed %;Imp[hal to defend it agains? t all ;t.)he;_ ;:odds pi:led heavily against them. In .\?a sc;(.hool se !!t up b y Ra%ni\'s g;.\randmoth[=er, Old Sodhi ,,:fin_ds the-^ ^?pho^.tograp[h ]: of] Maya \*and realize`\,+s th:]a+,[t@ Maya h; :a]s ]been dead. Ol d So*(dhi, !finally redeem=`s himself by =%?h $elping\ his young ,-:group sa/fely  cro[ss over fr$,om Burma @%^i= nt/o India, and keep his promise to Ma^,y a that h e would one d=ay return to Burma t. o fi\* nd her and be with her w]he#]n his body is blown (*+=b`-\y the Burmese so=:ldiers to a;shes and
:  *glory.