Over the years, Indian Navy Commander Vijay Varma, 42, and Navy Captain P. Rajkumar, 54, have been involved in many rescue missions where they saved flood, tsunami and cyclone victims.
But the search and rescue mission in the southern state of Kerala in August was their most challenging mission, said the two officers who were among four men and two disaster relief organisations named The Straits Times Asians of the Year last Wednesday.
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