The Brave Param Vir Chakra Stories

Twenty-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. About the Author Rachna Bisht Rawat is a journalist writer mom to a precocious 12-yearold and gypsy wife to an Army officer whose work has taken the Rawats to some of the quirkiest places in India. Rachna is a 2005 Harry Brittain fellow and winner of the 2006 Commonwealth Press Quarterly's Rolls Royce Award. Her first story 'Munni Mausi' was a winner in the 2008-09 Commonwealth Short Story Competition. This is her first book.