"Not one for academics he excelled in games & sports & other extra curricular activities. Udai, graduated from Deshbandhu College, Delhi with an honors degree in Political Science and was soon absorbed as a management trainee with the Taj Mansingh, Delhi. What he aspired to was a career in the Special Forces of the Indian Army. In one of his operations in Jammu and Kashmir, his team came face to face with a group of terrorists. He displayed extraordinary courage and helped in extricating his fatally wounded friend before succumbing to his own injuries. He was awarded the Shaurya Chakra posthumously."