Subedar Tika Bahadur Thapa gave up his life clearing an encroachment by Pakistani forces and charging against an enemy counter-attack during the 1965 Indo-Pak War.

Army records state:

He himself brought a mortar from another position and fired it single-handed. Suddenly he was hit by a bullet. Despite the severe wound, he kept on directing the fire and, thus, foiled further moves by the enemy, but soon succumbed to his injuries.

For this brave act, he was awarded India’s second highest military decoration, the Maha Vir Chakra.

And now Subedar Thapa’s brave act is being revisited and chronicled, for future generations, in a comic by AAN Comics.