CD commemorates heros of 1965 India-Pakistan war

To commemorate the heroes of the 1965 India-Pakistan war, a CD titled "Thank You Heros" comprising stories of war veterans and audio recordings was released here today.
The launch is part of an initiative of the same name organised by the Indian Army in collaboration with Comfed (Communication for Education and Development) to mark the golden jubilee year of the war.
"The 1965 war helped India to come out of the humiliation of the 1962 war and gave the Army confidence to triumph in the 1971 war which led to formation of Bangladesh," defence analyst Nitin Ghokhale said at the launch.

Ghokhale, has recently penned a book "1965, Turning the Tide: How India Won the War," which gives a profound picture of the collective memories of the war. The book has been commissioned by the Army's official think-tank Centre for Land Warfare Studies.
The CD talks about incidents from the 1965 war besides short stories related to ten heroes of the war, which have been detailed in Gokhale's book. The voice of Lal Bahadur Shastri retrieved from archives is also included in the CD.
FM radio stations have been already airing the four second audio clips, from the CD and five minute long stories have been introduced at various community radio stations in different cities.

"The idea was to promote the war heroes of 1965. In the beginning the stories in the CD were solely dedicated to radio, but we realised there is a need to inform people more about the war and that's how we went to television as well as other media," says Radio Jockey Simran Kohli, founder and director of the Academy of Radio Management (ARM) who is associated with the Heros project.
"We needed the facts of 1965 war and we realised there is not much in the archives. That was when we contacted Nitin and he gave us those stories which are available nowhere," says Kohli.

In his book Gokhale has produced a comprehensive evaluation of the events and aftermath of the war of 1965.