Manekshaw hospitalised
Pallab Bhattacharya, New Delhi
Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, who was the Indian army chief during the 1971 Liberation War, has been suffering from acute pneumonia in an army hospital in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.The 91-year-old Manekshaw is undergoing treatment at the Military Hospital in Wellington. Born in Amritsar on April 3, 1914, Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw served as the 8th Chief of the Army Staff between June 1969 and January 1973, capping nearly four decades of distinguished military career. An astute war strategy planner, Manekshaw led India to victory in the war against Pakistan in 1971. He was among the first batch of cadets to pass out of the Indian Military Academy in October 1934 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Indian Army. Decorated with the Military Cross for valour in Burma during World War II, Manekshaw was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1968 for handling the insurgency in Nagaland as the Group Officer Commanding in Chief of the Eastern Command. Manekshaw was conferred with the honorary rank of Field Marshal on January 1, 1973. He retired from the army a fortnight later. | 
