Battle of Asal Uttar, Indo-Pak War ’65: How Jesus Fought for India
Jesus Prakash Rao (left), his mother, his father and his brother, Shah Jahan Prakash Rao. Hyderabad, 1952. (Photo: Rohit Khanna)
Showing some leg as ‘Can-Can’ dancers, Capt PR Jesus with fellow officers in the 1940s (Photo: Rohit Khanna)
Seated (L-R) Dr Rajendra Prasad, Lady Edwina Mountbatten, Jawaharlal Nehru, Sarojini Naidu. Standing 2nd from Left (behind Lady Mountbatten) is Capt PR Jesus. Nainital, 1948. (Photo: Rohit Khanna)He was Sarojini Naidu’s aide-de-camp when she became the first Governor of UP. We have pics of Nehru with Edwina Mountbatten and Sarojini Naidu, with my dapper grand-dad lurking right behind. He says he saw action at Zoji-La in Kashmir in 1948, when mules were used to haul artillery guns to the top of the mountain pass. He was also among the first Indian soldiers to enter Goa at Sawantwadi in 1961.In 1963, by then Lieutenant Colonel PR Jesus, my grand-dad raised the 91st Medium Artillery Regiment.
Portrait of Lt Col PR Jesus. Ambala, 1963. (Photo: Rohit Khanna)
Lt Col PR Jesus (standing 3rd from right) at an unknown location with members of his army unit. (Photo: Rohit Khanna)
The Battle of Khemkaran was the world’s largest tank battle since WW2. (Map: The Quint)
Indian army officers with a destroyed Pakistani tank in Sept ‘65 (Photo: Wickimedia Commons)
Col PR Jesus with veterans at 91 Artillery Regiment’s Silver Jubilee, 1988. With medium artillery gun used in Battle of Asal Uttar. (Photo: Rohit Khanna)
Col PR Jesus with the love of his life, Kunti. (Photo: Rohit Khanna)
Author as a young boy with his grand-dad, Col PR Jesus, SM, Retd. Next to family’s black Ambassador. (Photo: Rohit Khanna)
Col PR Jesus, SM, (Retd) at Amar Jawan Jyoti, India Gate, New Delhi. 2008. (Photo: Rohit Khanna) http://www.thequint.com/india/2015/09/15/battle-of-asal-uttar-indo-pak-war-65-how-jesus-fought-for-india