because its a long detailed story about how the famlies and stories of the indians that ended up in the russian army. It provides a global perspective to a conflict for which we often hear the european side. Its something that i think would fit this subs globalist ethos furthermore its a very detailed investigation into the indians in the russian army.
Finally its a very well written work I nearly cried at points. Parminder trying to find her husband.
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**Jalandhar/Amritsar:** All the answers to Parminder Kaur’s profound grief lay in an abstract file in the computers of Room 412 in a Russian army social centre. She was on a mission to find her husband Tejpal’s remains, who, she was told, had died fighting a foreign war in Russia. But there was no body to cry on, no death certificate to stare at, no last messages to remember. She had travelled all the way from Amritsar to Moscow to find proof of death, and then perhaps closure.
The news of Tejpal’s death had reached Parminder as early as April 2024, but without a death certificate to prove it, Parminder wasn’t willing to accept her husband’s demise. The Indian government didn’t have any answers either.
Parminder is not alone in her grief. At least 44 Indians have been recruited into the Russian war effort. About 16 people of Indian origin are believed to have gone missing after being recruited into the Russian army to fight the war in Ukraine, and 12 have been confirmed dead. Their families are now fighting a lonely battle to find their family members. As information remains inaccessible in India, they have been borrowing money to travel to Russia in search of their kin. They have formed a support group on WhatsApp to extend help to each other.
At the centre of the story is the unwillingness to mourn for a relative whose death hasn’t been confirmed, even as they’re overwrought by grief.
Tejpal was among the first batch of Indians confirmed to have died while fighting the war in Russia. But his body never arrived, and so even with all the information in front of her, Parminder refuses to fully accept the death of her husband. And so do tens of other families. They tell similar sordid tales of experiencing grief without closure.
27 families from all over the country—Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Telangana, Haryana, Punjab—gathered at the protest site. | Shubhangi Misra | ThePrint
Relatives have to follow the trail like investigative journalists. They end up in Moscow, not knowing what to do next, and then chase lead after lead. Their story takes them to recruitment offices and military commissariats in Moscow and St Petersburg. They scan through Russian documents via Google Lens and use translation apps to get by.
They now know the Russian *babus* (bureaucrats), they’re able to understand Russian numerals, and understand the system of Russian military courts.
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Putin couldn’t be bothered to help his Armenian allies, and they’re white Christians.
Any Indian that thinks he’s going to spend one ruble helping Indian KIA’s (especially with how many of those Indians were apparently tricked into it in the first place) needs a reality check.
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Hard to feel sympathy for people who volunteered to destroy my home, my life and life of countless innocent people. I hope they burn in hell.
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Good luck getting anything out of the Russian government. They’ve done everything in their power to conceal the deaths of Russian soldiers and deny benefits to their survivors.
Any foreign soldier fighting for the Russians should have realized they would be treated somehow even worse than expendable. I’d be surprised if they even bothered keeping records of their service
Edit: I’d say the experience of the interviewed individuals is about the best they can expect and I’m frankly surprised they were able to confirm death with an official statement that recovery wasn’t possible.
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The wife investigated it all on her own and found everything all on her own wow. She really is something else. Great detective work.
But the man she married was a dumbass.
“Tejpal had gone to Russia in 2024 willingly to fight in the war against Ukraine. It had been his lifelong dream to be enlisted in the army, but it came to nought in India. Tejpal found a way to live his dream in Russia, even if it proved to be short-lived.”
Wtf is this by this point Indian govt was asking Russians to send indians back and warned Indians to not go there. This man wanted to be a hero who did he think he was
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Why should this be allowed?
because its a long detailed story about how the famlies and stories of the indians that ended up in the russian army. It provides a global perspective to a conflict for which we often hear the european side. Its something that i think would fit this subs globalist ethos furthermore its a very detailed investigation into the indians in the russian army.
Finally its a very well written work I nearly cried at points. Parminder trying to find her husband.
**Jalandhar/Amritsar:** All the answers to Parminder Kaur’s profound grief lay in an abstract file in the computers of Room 412 in a Russian army social centre. She was on a mission to find her husband Tejpal’s remains, who, she was told, had died fighting a foreign war in Russia. But there was no body to cry on, no death certificate to stare at, no last messages to remember. She had travelled all the way from Amritsar to Moscow to find proof of death, and then perhaps closure.
The news of Tejpal’s death had reached Parminder as early as April 2024, but without a death certificate to prove it, Parminder wasn’t willing to accept her husband’s demise. The Indian government didn’t have any answers either.
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Parminder is not alone in her grief. At least 44 Indians have been recruited into the Russian war effort. About 16 people of Indian origin are believed to have gone missing after being recruited into the Russian army to fight the war in Ukraine, and 12 have been confirmed dead. Their families are now fighting a lonely battle to find their family members. As information remains inaccessible in India, they have been borrowing money to travel to Russia in search of their kin. They have formed a support group on WhatsApp to extend help to each other.
At the centre of the story is the unwillingness to mourn for a relative whose death hasn’t been confirmed, even as they’re overwrought by grief.
Tejpal was among the first batch of Indians confirmed to have died while fighting the war in Russia. But his body never arrived, and so even with all the information in front of her, Parminder refuses to fully accept the death of her husband. And so do tens of other families. They tell similar sordid tales of experiencing grief without closure.
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27 families from all over the country—Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Telangana, Haryana, Punjab—gathered at the protest site. | Shubhangi Misra | ThePrint
Relatives have to follow the trail like investigative journalists. They end up in Moscow, not knowing what to do next, and then chase lead after lead. Their story takes them to recruitment offices and military commissariats in Moscow and St Petersburg. They scan through Russian documents via Google Lens and use translation apps to get by.
They now know the Russian *babus* (bureaucrats), they’re able to understand Russian numerals, and understand the system of Russian military courts.
Putin couldn’t be bothered to help his Armenian allies, and they’re white Christians.
Any Indian that thinks he’s going to spend one ruble helping Indian KIA’s (especially with how many of those Indians were apparently tricked into it in the first place) needs a reality check.
Hard to feel sympathy for people who volunteered to destroy my home, my life and life of countless innocent people. I hope they burn in hell.
Good luck getting anything out of the Russian government. They’ve done everything in their power to conceal the deaths of Russian soldiers and deny benefits to their survivors.
Any foreign soldier fighting for the Russians should have realized they would be treated somehow even worse than expendable. I’d be surprised if they even bothered keeping records of their service
Edit: I’d say the experience of the interviewed individuals is about the best they can expect and I’m frankly surprised they were able to confirm death with an official statement that recovery wasn’t possible.
The wife investigated it all on her own and found everything all on her own wow. She really is something else. Great detective work.
But the man she married was a dumbass.
“Tejpal had gone to Russia in 2024 willingly to fight in the war against Ukraine. It had been his lifelong dream to be enlisted in the army, but it came to nought in India. Tejpal found a way to live his dream in Russia, even if it proved to be short-lived.”
Wtf is this by this point Indian govt was asking Russians to send indians back and warned Indians to not go there. This man wanted to be a hero who did he think he was