Twenty one stories every Indian should know
Updated On: 17 August, 2014 11:01 AM IST | | Moeena Halim
<p>Journalist and debutante author Rachna Bisht Rawat pens the stories of the 21 awardees of India’s highest military decoration, the Param Vir Chakra, in her book, The Brave: Param Vir Chakra Stories</p>
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When Manoj Kumar Pandey was asked during his interview for the National Defence Academy why he wanted to join the army, he had replied with a confident one-liner: “I want to win the Param Vir Chakra”. His dream was fulfilled six years later, while he was still only in his 20s, but he hadn’t lived to know it.
Author Rachna Bisht Rawat
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