On January 11, Major Shashi Daran Nair, an Army officer of the Gurkha regiment, was killed in an IED blast in Nowshera along the Line of Control in Kashmir. Major Nair was not just a soldier and an officer to the men he commanded. He was a best friend and to his wife, Trupti, he was a pillar - the man who did not think twice about marrying his sweetheart even though she was diagnosed with multiple arteriosclerosis.