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shaitan

[shahy-tahn] / ʃaɪˈtɑn /


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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

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

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

One of them, chasing or being chased, saw Goblin out of control just before Goblin and Shaitan locked, and narrowly escaped adding herself to that triple collision.

From Sea Warfare by Kipling, Rudyard

For an instant Shaitan staggered under the blow:—then horse, and man, and tree were hurled headlong down the steep, rain-lashed ravine.

From The Great Amulet by Diver, Maud




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