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“I was visiting my sister in Bengaluru when I got the news.

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My older son called me from Delhi… The press, family members, neighbours… the house was filled with people. But my son’s body wasn’t there,” recalls Aziz, sitting in her sparse apartment at the Veer Awas residential colony in Sector 18 of Delhi’s Dwarka area.

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Hanif’s body could not be retrieved till the end of the war due to enemy firing.

“We got his body 43 days after his death. It was the toughest time… Every few days we would get a call saying the firing has stopped, or the weather has cleared… But nobody would turn up. We just couldn’t get closure,” says the 70-year-old who worked with the Armed Forces Entertainment Wing and then with the Delhi Kathak Kendra as a singer for 18 years.

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