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70 years after defeating Japan, India forgets Imphal
Times of India | Manimugdha S Sharma | TNN | Jun 27, 2014, 09.02PM IST
Seventy years is a long time to forget people, events, the past. In India, it doesn't take that long. Even heroes are forgotten here in a matter of months, or a few years. In such a scenario, it's not surprising that nobody has remembered the 70th anniversaries of the twin battles of Imphal and Kohima. There have been no newspaper ads, no radio jingles, no special programme on TV, absolutely no mention of the battle or its veterans anywhere, save a few stray news reports. But that doesn't mean that the rest of the world is suffering from the same amnesia.
On Saturday, representatives from Britain, the United States, Australia and Japan, apart from an ever-shrinking group of veterans, would be part of a closing ceremony in Imphal of a three-month-long programme remembering those brave souls who had died fighting in two of the fiercest and most horrific battles mankind has ever known.
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