Updated On: 19 November, 2015 12:08 PM IST | | Chaitraly Deshmukh
<p>Recollects 11-yr-old Kartiki, daughter of martyr Colonel Santosh Mahadik whose body was flown down from J&K last evening; last rites were performed today in Satara</p>

Colonel Santosh Mahadik celebrating his birthday, which happened to be his last, with Kartiki and Swarajya
Pune: "Though we were married for 12 years, motherland remained his first love. And it is this first love that took my husband away from me," said a teary-eyed Swati (35), the widow of Colonel Santosh Mahadik.