Lessons I learned from my Army career

  A Bullet Over the Gorge: Innovation, Duty, and Brotherhood in North Sikkim By Col Guljit Singh Chadha (Retd) A few days ago, I happened to visit the Panjab University campus in Chandigarh, a place where academia meets memories, and where time seems to walk a little slower. As I strolled through its tree-lined lanes, soaking in the familiar charm, a distinct sound caught my ear. The unmistakable deep thump of a Royal Enfield. A young student passed me slowly on his “Geri route,” steady and proud astride his Bullet. As he rode by, he offered a polite nod and a smile, nothing dramatic, just a moment shared between strangers. But in that fleeting second, something inside me stirred. That sound, that image, it didn’t just echo down the university lane… it echoed back nearly three decades, to the frozen, silent stretches of North Sikkim in the mid-1990s. It transported me to a moment when that same thump wasn’t about style or swagger, it was about survival, solidarity, and se...