Whenever decorated officer Vishwas Nangre Patil recalls the memories of Diwali from his childhood days the sounds of firecrackers often transform into the deafening grenade blasts from the night of 26/11. It was his grit cultivated over the years from the neck-breaking labour of studying for the UPSC exams that had enabled him to power on and gun down the terrorists inside the Taj Mahal Palace hotel during the 2008 Mumbai attacks.Head Held High translated from the Marathi book Mann Mein Hai Vish