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to the frontier areas of Ladakh to boost the morale of the soldiers. While reciting poetry there, a soldier happened to be alone at a big height, where he was not able to hear his poetry. Tulsi especially walked up 1000 ft high area and went to that soldier so that he could boost his morale.
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He also wrote books on the Sikh religion. One was specifically focused on the first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak's Life, called "Param Purukh Guru Nanak Dev Ji" and the second was on the last guru, called "Darvesh
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After returning from Ladakh, Tulsi wrote his first book of various collections of poetry in Hindi and
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