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Adi Meherji Sethna, PVSM, AVSM was an

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General who served as the Vice Chief of Army Staff. After graduating from

The Doon School The Doon School (informally Doon School or Doon) is a Selective school, selective all-boys Private school, private boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, which was established in 1935. It was envisioned by Satish Ranjan Das, a lawyer ...

and Allahabad University he was commissioned into the Indian Army and posted to the 6th Rajputana Rifles on 21 May 1944. He began his military career fighting in Malaya during the

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. He was one of the few Indians to attend both the Royal College of Defence Studies and the Camberly Staff College in

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. He was ADC to the second

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C. Rajagopalachari as well as Dr.

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He also played an active role in the strategy for the Bangladesh campaign and was awarded India's third highest civilian award, the

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. He guided the Delhi Parsi Anjuman and the Federation of Zoroastrian Anjumans for 20 years. Adi Sethna was also the Founder President of the

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Parsi-Zoroastrian Project (PARZOR). He died of

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in 2006.

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