Sardar Khan

The next place that I visited was Udaipur Lake Palace on Lake Pichola in Rajasthan, India. This was the home to my next interviewee, Sardar Khan. Khan was in what I like to call a sticky situation. He described to me a very narrow passage way along the side of a mountain where many civilians were attempting to escape the zombies. Some of them were successful and some of them were not. The main problem with this situation was that many people would fall off the edge of the mountain and die. They had set charges in the narrow passage way so that when the zombie came, they could seal them off. He told me that there were so many civilians trying to get across and could not detonate the charges without killing them. A very high-ranking general came to them, General Raj-Singh. He said that they needed to detonate the charges otherwise they will all be dead. When General Raj-Singh tried to detonate the charges, they would not blow. Something had gone wrong with the charges. Meanwhile, they go into the giant crowd of people and he loses General Raj-Singh in the crowd. Khan tells me he finds his way into a microbus. He said he could hear the zombies coming and they were around 200 meters away. At this point, he began to bang his head on the side of the bus hoping to kill himself. He eventually passed out and did not succeed in killing himself. He woke up a while later to the sound of a dripping noise, the crackle of his radio, and the howling of the zombies. It ended up that the dripping noise he was hearing were the zombies falling over the edge of the mountain to their death. It looked like General Raj-Singh detonated the charges after all and sealed the people off from the zombies. Khan then tells me about how they said the secured zones on the radio and then tells me of a monkey that pissed on him. Sardar Khan is a fascinating man and I wish we could have talked about more of his experiences during the Zombie War.