4: The War That Forgot Them

As the mystery of Rifatullah Shah is finally solved, Sami Shah considers the legacy of the more than one million Indian soldiers who served in World War I. Sami has the details and reveals the truth about the last hours of Rifatullah Shah’s life. War is not just battles, but boredom, ill health and being in the wrong place at the wrong time, which still deserves to be remembered. And in his search, Sami discovers that even with the white Australia policy, the ANZACs had several Indian born soldiers in its ranks, and he meets one of their descendants. #sbsaudiopodcast