Greetings,
The following event has been posted to the GW Micro Upcoming Events page:
Name: GW InsiderWhen: Tuesday, August 30, 2011
What: GW Insider
Who: Kimberly Cline and Colonel Virendra Swarup
Comments: The August 30th GW Insider episode will feature an engaging interview with Colonel Virendra Swarup.
Colonel Virendra Swarup, popularly known as Viru Swarup is a former Commandant of the Roaring Fours’, the 44 Armored Regiment, former Director Planning, QMG’s (Quartermaster General’s) Branch, Army Headquarters, former Colonel Administration, Mountain Corps and Colonel Military Secretary of a desert Corps, of the great Indian Army, India is leading an active retired life traveling between India and the United States of America.
The sudden outbreak of the Sino-Indian war in 1962 fired the patriotic zeal in many young men to volunteer to serve in the armed forces. Viru opted for a commission in the Indian Army. He was selected and sent to the most prestigious Indian Military Academy. From here he passed out as a Second Lieutenant and posted to the country’s most highly decorated tank regiment – the Poona Horse in August, 1964.
He participated in both the 1965 and 1971 Indo-Pak wars. In the 1965 war, he was a tank troop leader. In one of the fiercest tank engagements in Phillaura, Pakistan, his tank was hit. His operator-cum-loader was killed on the spot and he himself was severely wounded losing his right eye. Notwithstanding this serious disability he followed his profession with resilience, grit, positive attitude he never looked back and forged ahead fighting all the odds for a good twenty eight years and risen to the rank of Colonel. He was not destined to command the regiment into which he was first posted (a cherished desire of all officers). He, however, commanded a new outfit – 44 Armored Regiment – with the raising of which he was associated as its Second-in-Command.
In 1992, he lost the other eye while still in harness in one of the freak accidents and, was rendered blind, thus, medically boarded out of military service.
He traveled extensively both in India and abroad including the Republic of South Africa and with his keen eye (the inner one), savored the culture of this beautiful world.
He has two children, daughter and the son, both physicians and five grandchildren, Nikhita, 10 years’ old, Somya, Shray, both 4 years’, Ayush and Akshay, both just 20 months’ old.
He is currently busy writing yet another book, this time a fiction, about “A Mysterious Woman”. He stays with his family most of his time in Arizona, USA.
For more information about Colonel Virendra Swarup, please listen to podcast that will be posted after the interview on August 30th. Once it is posted, you can access the link at http://www.gwmicro.com/Audio_Video_Archive/Podcast/
However, if you have questions you would like me to ask Colonel Swarup during my interview with him on August 30th, you can send them via e-mail to Kimberly Cline at [email protected]. Please send in all questions prior to August 29, 2011.
Please feel free to contact Kimberly Cline at 260-489-3671 Ext. 264 if you have any questions.
