The Army song that saved lives: Badluram ka badan

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What sounds like a foot-tapping army anthem is actually a tribute to a fallen soldier whose name stayed on the ration list, and helped his brothers in arms survive.

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00:00That's a video capturing soldiers of Indian Army's Assam Regiment bringing the battlefield spirit

00:08alive. A foot-stomping, high-energy regimental song that you just can't get out of your head.

00:16But behind the beat lies a story about a Rifleman from Assam.

00:19Rifleman Badaluram died fighting the Japanese in World War II but his name stayed on the

00:27ration list. So even after his death, rations kept coming and when the military

00:31unit was cut off, the mistaken surplus of rations helped the rest survive. So in

00:35essence, even after death, Badaluram fed his comrades. The song was later penned by

00:40Major M.T. Proctor to honor Badaluram's accidental act of survival.

00:51Today, this anthem echoes through every jawaan of the Assam Regiment. It's more

00:55than a tribute, it's tradition and it hits harder than a boardroom.

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