SynopsisTwenty-one riveting stories about how India's highest military honor was won. Rachna Bisht Rawat takes us to the heart of war, chronicling the tales of twenty-one of India's bravest soldiers. Talking to parents, siblings, children and comrades-in-arms to paint the most vivid character-portraits of these men and their conduct in battle and getting unprecedented access to the Indian Army, Rawat has written the ultimate book on the Param Vir Chakra.
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About the author
Rachna Bisht Rawat is a journalist, writer, mom to a precocious twelve year old and gypsy wife to an army officer whose work has taken the Rawats to some of the quirkiest places in India. Rachna has written for publications such as the Statesman, Indian Express, Deccan Herald, Outlook, Discover India and Femina.
She is a 2005 Harry Brittain fellow and winner of the 2006 Commonwealth Press Union quarterly's Rolls Royce Award. Her first story 'Munni Mausi', was Highly Commended in the 2008-09 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. Her first book was The Brave: Param Vir Chakra's Stories, published by Penguin.