Hokato Hotozhe Sema, who lost a leg in Kashmir, has redrawn the boundaries of military service and transformed India’s Paralympic imagination. While there are military decorations that reward courage under fire and sporting medals that honour excellence in competition, it is rare for the two to converge in one life. That they have done so in the career of Subedar Hokato Hotozhe Sema says as much about the changing face of India’s armed forces as it does about the country’s be