The pornographic stuff is never short in supply. Most of Pakistani peaks facing Indian posts have been named after Indian film actresses - you have Rekha peak, Mumtaz height, and even a Benazir height. A commonly held belief is that a high-altitude posting leads to impotence. I asked Major Gen Mohinder Puri, GOC of 8 Mountain Division holding the Kargil heights, if it was true. In Drass, a young major narrated how soldiers were fond of consuming a locally available Shillajit, an aphrodisiac, to fight their fears of impotence.
War is long over.
But, the Kargil heights are littered with ironic stories. A couple of habitable structures that came up on the forward posts were made with the construction material the retreating Pakistani soldiers had left behind. And, what they fired at Pakistanis was out of 24,000 rounds of multipurpose ammunition they had captured from Pakistani intruders during the war. Even more delightful was the story of a rare bonhomie between troops of the two enemy armies. And the Indian soldiers obliged by hanging a few bottles with a string from top, and a Pakistani soldier walked across the LOC to collect the winter gift.