A Battle and a Smile RAHUL SINGH [ WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2004 12:00:00 AM ] In 1962, when I was just 22 years old, I did something considered unusual at the time. Along with an English friend who had been at university with me, we decided to go overland by car from England to India. While traversing Italy, we came to a picturesque town called Monte Cassino. The town was on top of a towering cone of land, rising 5,000 feet above the Liri Valley. In those days, I still had the outward symbols