Across the border

"I was waiting on the Arunachal frontier highway in a repaired bike to reach the Dibang valley as I was a rider, "Arun recollected his experience.

Through some bikers on the way, he got help and his bike turned back to normal. He thanked them and got ready to start his journey. Arun managed to reach the Dibang valley and enjoyed its beauty of nature. But a tragedy had happened there. The India China border across the Dibang valley had been attacked by several forces of China and India.

Arun managed to save himself from the attack as the military instructed them to go to the safe place. As per the order the Civilians were taken to the safe place and the military forces were in attack with the opposition. A major thing happened as Arun's brother serving as a military man on the border of India China had been seen by Arun and he in exclamation was about to talk to him but he refused as his brother was busy with the emergency attack.

Arun remembered the days where he and his brother were served in the National Cadet Corps in their college days. His brother Ram Kumar was a very good cadet and an excellent shooter in their cadet. He had been trained by the seniors of his college and also been trained by the higher officials because of his excellent performance. Arun recollected that his brother was the excellent shooter in their college cadet and he had been appointed as the super senior member to guide the fellow cadets.

Arun was a naughty boy where he used to bunk cadet sessions and the training and march past sessions. As he was his brother, Ram managed to give advice to him and also gave punishment to his younger brother for not doing his duty in the cadet. Arun had not been written the cadet exams so he was fired from the NCC. Meanwhile Ram managed to get into the Indian military by qualifying in all the aspects.

After a few years Ram managed to get a senior position in the military and transferred to the India China border to serve his duty. Arun was working on a multinational company on the other side with a better salary package. But the major thing is both the brothers had not been talking and not been touch with themselves due to their ego issues. On a particular day, Ram visited to his house surprisingly saying that he had given leave for a week. On the other hand Arun was so happy on seeing his brother but he had not expressed his feelings.

On the same week, Arun got admitted to the hospital as he already got health issues while he was a child and his problem was somehow severe on that time. Ram managed to console his mother on Arun's condition and after some days Arun managed to get normal condition after a surgery. Doctor insisted him with some instructions. As Ram had taken some leave, he had been leaving on that same day saying goodbye to his family and he hugged his brother for being ego with themselves and said him to care of his health.

Arun managed to get some medical leave from his company and after his due course of treatment he asked his mother to leave him for a long ride. His mother was on a thought first but later she agreed upon. Their house was in the city of Agra and he started his journey to Arunachal Pradesh with his favourite bike. After a series of recollected events, Arun was back to his present state. The armed forces were fighting heavily and the news has been taken to the international level and Prime Minister insisted the forces to make a peace and also made a peace contract with the opposition country's PM.

While everything was returning back to normal, Arun managed to get himself free and he decided to meet and talk to his beloved and heroic brother. On the time, a huge bomb blast has occured in the India China border and the armed forces again started to fight with the opposition country. Both the country were on the urge to declare a war but it was stopped by the UNO and a peace contract has been made between the countries to talk later about their border issue. Many people on the military side of India were died in which Ram was also one of them.

After hearing the news, Arun weeped and cried loudly. His brother's body has been found and Arun took responsibility as he was his brother and he said not to give his brother's dead body to his house as his mother would not tolerate the pain and insisted the forces to place his brother's grave in somewhere with a great respect of honour on his ritual. After a series of events, Arun's family has got some money and a government job offer to Arun but Arun refused. As Arun dreamt to become a fighter pilot in his childhood but due to his health issues he had left out the dream.

He wrote AFCAT exams and through clearing several exams he has been into the training session and in his training session he used to remember his NCC training where his brother used to give him training and he used to bunk classes and get punishment. Tears falls in his eyes. He remembered his brother's words in every session of his training and managed to clear the training. He was waitlisted on his recent health issues but after knowing that was the brother of Lieutenant Ram Kumar, he got selected for the Indian Air Force where a breeze of air touched his soul where he understands that his brother's soul was communicating with him for his success where the story ends.