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“He took the medal to his teacher in India, who was a very old by then. His teacher was lying flat on his back and couldn't get out of bed. And there is a picture of my father putting the medal (Nobel Prize) into his hands...”

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“My parents were very forward-looking even in that era. In the ’30s my eldest sister completed her graduation staying in a hostel away from all of us. My father was a firm believer of educating his girls,” she adds.

Armed with nothing but a feeling of sheer patriotism, they took up the practically impossible task of repairing the airstrip.

This superspy plane was reported to photograph sensitive defence sites across the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir as well as the Line of Actual Control with China since its induction in 1981.

“I can truly say that [but] for Dr. Bhatnagar you could not have seen today the chain of national laboratories”, once said Nehru about the ‘Father of India’s Research Laboratories’. He was not wrong.

“We are not a nation of shopkeepers. Whatever the economic consequences maybe we want to stand on certain principles.”

A dead engine, sub-zero temperatures and even some artillery shelling did not faze these men, whose 1990 rescue has since become a legend.