About the Book: Letters From Kargil
With feet deep in snow and alert with their guns, our soldiers are responding
to each threat from the enemy with twice the intensity and vigour, but my heart
is somewhere else. In May 1999, India was invaded by Pakistan in Kargil in the
Ladakh region in a surprise attack. Diksha Dwivedis father was one of the
martyrs of that war. In this beautiful, extremely moving book, she tells the
story of the Kargil war through the letters and diaries of her father and other
soldiers who fought there. Intimate and emotional, Letters from Kargil is the
most human