The Chief Guest for the occasion was Dr Kiran Bedi, IPS (Retd) and former Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry. (Express photo by Pavan Khengre) As the cadets of the landmark 150th course of the National Defence Academy (NDA) received their degrees on Friday, the academic toppers reflected a diverse set of inspirations behind their journeys — from a cadet motivated by the Bollywood film Uri: The Surgical Strike to dream of joining Special Forces, to another from Visakhapatnam who grew up watching Navy officers and naval parades, experiences that inspired him to join the nation’s armed forces. A total of 353 cadets are set to pass out from NDA on May 30. One Friday 236 cadets were conferred the degrees from Jawaharlal Nehru University, including 65 in the Science stream, 112 in the Computer Science stream, and 59 in the Arts stream. Remaining were awarded three year course completion certificates of the four year BTech course.…