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TREES AND CHILDREN
Many
friends of the family have been working for memory of Nawang without our
plodding them at all. One such
close friends of the family are Parul and Ketan Shah. Parul had known Nawang
almost since he was born. They have been to the Himalaya together, done plenty
of trekking; scolded him, adored
him and even quarrelled with Nawang
like a true family friend. Her
father has a farm little outside Bombay and for the birthday of her own
daughter, Jhanvi (named after a Himalayan river near Gangotri) she decided to
invite about 60 children from her school and give them trees to plant in memory
of Nawang. These young children were explained about the great Indian Army and
the Gorkha soldiers that Lt. Nawang represented. Then each of them planted one
sapling in a very orderly fashion which will be now looked after at the farm.
Each child and their parents carried back some memories of Nawang with them that
day. It is in such small gestures that memories grow and multiply.
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