shaitan

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In a war "mostly remembered with shame," Bisht writes that Major Shaitan Singh and his men achieved great glory.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

The film, with Farhan Akhtar as Major Shaitan Singh, failed at the box office but succeeded in spotlighting a battle often described as the only silver lining in a war India lost.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

In her 2014 book on Major Shaitan Singh, journalist Rachna Bisht notes that C Company, from the plains, had never seen snow and lacked time to acclimatise.

From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026

Next night the man again offers cocoanuts and incense to the Shaitan, whom he can see by night but not by day, and tells him to go to the woman’s house and call her.

From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)

Yet Shaitan had had her little crumb of comfort ere the end.

From Sea Warfare by Kipling, Rudyard