Martyred ATS Chief Hemant Karkare Was Brave in Life, as He Was in Death
"Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak, but they reveal what he is!" wrote a 21-year-old Hemant Karkare in his diary on 17 May 1975.
He didn't know it then that when such 'occasions' would arise later in his life, he would be revealed as a man of incomparable valour and extreme resilience. Karkare, who sacrificed his life serving as Mumbai's Anti-terrorist Squad chief 11 eyars ago during the 26/11 terror attacks, has been epitomised as the 'brave-heart' and 'daredevil' cop of India by domestic as well as…