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Saturday, January 13, 2007

Lt. Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

Yesterday, the chief guest in our EKOM was none other than Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore. He speaks in English very fluently and his enunciation was awesome. He quoted that the best thing in Army for a leader is to return back the men to their families safe! He served in Kashmir for 3 years and none of his 12 men were even injured at the completion of their term (a laudable task if one keeps in mind the grave condition in Kashmir).

I dug up more on Lt. Col. Rathore and this is what i found in wikipidea:
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (born January 29, 1970, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India) is an Indian shooter who won the first individual silver medal for the country in 2004 Summer Olympics. His event was the Men's Double Trap. In 2005 Commonwealth Shooting Championships in Melbourne, he was the member of the winning team in the double trap event. He won the gold in the individual and team events in Men's double trap at the 2005 Asian Clay Shooting championships at Bangkok. The gold in the individual event was the third consecutive one for Rathore at the annual events after the ones in 2003 and 2004, thus constituting a hat trick.
He is a
Lt. Colonel in the Indian Army.
He won the
Arjuna award in 2003-2004 for shooting and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, the highest sporting honour of India, in 2004-2005.
He is a recipient of the
Padma Shri, a civilian award from the Government of India, and the Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM), a gallantry award for service presented by the government. He is the first officer (from the Indian Army) below the rank of brigadier to be awarded the AVSM.

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