Mahmud sipra biography of albert
Mahmud sipra biography of albert
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Reflections
A Prince, the Civil Servant and a Bull Elephant
Mahmud Sipra & Faisal Sipra
(Continued from last week)
Sitting there in Rangamati in his neat bungalow sipping his morning tea some 16 years later Superintendent Khan in a moment of nostalgia glanced at the array of framed fading photographs that sat on the credenza- of his peers he had served with and the places he had served in: Rangoon, Moulmein, Mandalay and the Kohima Imphal Front.
Prominent among them was an enormous black and white photo of Lal Bahadur- the elephant. The Superintendent had last seen him on Christmas day His mind taking him back to that fateful Christmas in to Rangoon, till then a bustling shining city of golden pagodas and wide boulevards before Japanese fighter planes flying sortie after sortie rained bombs on this vibrant centre of trade and mercantile activity and within minutes turned this once proud city to rubble.
He remembered his last instructions to the Mahout.
“Take hi