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The terrain is difficult, the jungle is thick; in the night it is often difficult to know whether the moving figure is an animal or a man. But these pale out when confronted with what lies on the other side of the LoC. "Can you trust the person across? Never! Since '48 we have not been able to...

Many of the soldiers here haven't seen a conventional war. Some were school boys during the 1999 Kargil conflict and soon may come a time when there will be generals in the Indian Army who would not have seen a war. But here at the LoC, these men fight an unconventional war -- far more...

There are jawans who carry on the tradition after their fathers have retired from the army, like the young Gorkha sepoy whose father was a drill instructor and gave march-past training to the athletes in the 1982 Delhi Asian Games and was called 'Jhandey Saheb.'The officers are expected to know...

The men stay in bunkers, their bags hanging on the wall carrying few belongings; magazine cut-outs of Hindi film actresses pasted by their small beds. There are common bathrooms and toilets, while there is a recreation room for off duty hours in the evening. Subedar Gabbar Singh, the post...

Food is made in a cook house at a larger post or sent to other posts from what is called a langar.The jawans get meals according to the stipulated calorie count prepared for them and because of the difficulties of the terrain, ration is often transported on mules. Life is hard at the...

At another forward post reached after trekking through a trench, JCO Pandey nods when introduced as the post commander responsible for detecting any intrusion and defending that post with his men at all cost -- to the last man, last round. A marigold bed leads to their small gate festooned...

The men here guard their territory zealously. Away from family, human habitation, cell phone communication, theirs is a 24x7x365 job which comes with no weekend or festival breaks. Their post is their home. "You could take a picture of my post from anywhere -- aerial view, bottom view, side...

The posts are small -- almost makeshift structures -- but are formidable and crucial to India's defences. Some have seen bloody action in every war with Pakistan, where men have had to fight to the last man and the last bullet in the face of enemy attack. "The post was attacked by Pakistan...

"If you are posted here you have to know the LoC with your eyes closed -- even if you are blind," says Colonel Rakesh Nair, a proud second generation soldier from the Gorkha Rifles, who has served with the Rashtriya Rifles fighting insurgency in the Kashmir valley -- also in the Siachen Glacier...

In the distance, across the landscape scattered with mine fields, one can see the Pakistani posts -- on a hill, or another on a pointed tip, among a grove of trees under a star and crescent flag. "He is watching us. As we are moving, he is observing us at places. He must know we have visitors,"...

It is early afternoon and it is calm. There is a stillness in the wooded landscape flecked with hills, the last village is left 15 kilometers behind, ahead lies the India-Pakistan Ceasefire Line, famously known as the LoC, defended by the Indian Army -- where at one point in this area the enemy...

"Line of Control -- what comes to your mind when you think about it?" asks Major Anurag Chaturvedi, sitting in the front seat of the Maruti Gypsy as we drive towards a forward post guarding the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir. The officer, a native of Rajasthan, is stationed at a place which does not...

Salute that soldier at the LoC At the Line of Control, young Indian soldiers -- in their 20s and 30s -- defend one of the world's most volatile borders. Battling harsh weather, tough terrain and a hostile enemy -- as old as the Indian nation itself -- these soldiers face a war every day to...