It's a Friday afternoon when we meet former (British) Army man and banker Roddy Sale at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, better known as the Afghan Church, in Colaba. "On Sunday, the Indian Navy Buglers of the 7th Sikh Battalion will start playing the pipes and drums from here," he tells us pointing to the area near the entrance. For the last four years, Sale, the chairman of the Ex-Services' Association, has been helming the Annual Remembrance Service at the church. The memorial service in India is an old custom, one that has lived on since 1847, after the end of WWI.

Roddy Sale at the Afghan Church, Colaba. Pic/Sneha Kharabe