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Name: Captain Amarinder Singh
Number & Batch: 45-T,1959
Education: Doon School, Dehra Dun; National Defence Academy, Kharakvasla; The Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dun.
Employment: Commissioned into the 2nd Battalion of The Sikh Regiment.
ADC to GOC-in-C, Western Command during the 1965 war, in whose theatre of operations the entire war was fought.
Two terms in the Punjab Legislature during which he served as a Minister in the Punjab. government.
Member of Parliament and member of the Parliamentary Defence Committee
He is presently President of the Congress Party in the State of Punjab.

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Captain Amarinder Singh is not being recognized here because he is the Maharaja of Patiala. Or because he is the Punjab State Congress President. But because he's recently written a book that chronicles some of the greatest but unfortunately almost forgotten battles that India has fought since 1947. This book was published early in the year and got little attention compared to publications like Arundhuti Roy's "A God of Small Things." But that doesn't mean it is any the less important. In fact it is probably more relevant to us as Indians particularly at this time with the Kargil issue in the news. And as Captain Amarinder Singh also happens to be a dynamic Dosco we felt that this in itself is reason enough to highlight the publication.

Lest We Forget aims at being a true record of wars that soldiers and officiers of the Indian army have fought over the last fifty years. The book presents an account of seven battles for three wars - the war in Kashmir of 1947-48, the Indo - China War of 1962, and the Indo Pakistan War of 1965.

The book records the truth of these battles in memory of those thousands of men, long since forgotten, who gave their lives, and for the sake of those who survived now in their twilight years.