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stance, and he found himself pinned down in a bunker for three days. This event left a lasting impact on him.
But it was a moment with his camera that brought Yavar’s time in the war to an end. He was injured in the leg while capturing the moment a British tank burst through a barbed wire jungle barricade during an advance. The jungle was so thick that he says fighting around him could go on for days without anyone realising.
He was flown to a field hospital in Calcutta (now Kolkata). On the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and Japan surrendered in August 1945, Yavar was being operated on. The surgical instruments were set aside, and the news of Japan’s surrender was announced over the hospital’s PA system. Yavar recalls everyone in the hospital cheering and singing. The war was over.
He spent a year convalescing in Calcutta and returned to Kashmir, now part of India, where he turned his hand to business. But he will never forget the impact of those years from 1941 to 1945. He still has severe pain in his leg, and walks with a limp. Yet as he stands before King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the age of 104, his sharp mind and wit are undiminished.
When the King asks Yavar what he plans to do next, he replies with a twinkle in his eye: “Live to be 105!” The audience erupts into laughter and applause. And as he returns to his seat, the King leans over and whispers in his ear, “I hear 106 is the new target…”
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