Essay: Summer of 99 by Urmi Chakravorty

In this essay, Urmi Chakravorty shares her memories recounting some of those experiences as a spouse – how the War strengthened them and about the power of sisterhood.

26th July is Kargil Vijay Diwas

Late-night phone calls, unannounced visits, sudden movements – features that distinguish a soldier’s life from that of others. All in a day’s work, as officers of the defence forces and their spouses will augur. But when the conversations are held in hushed tones when the visits happen in the dead of the night, and the man of the house packs and leaves at dawn without divulging any details of his official tour, as a fauji wife you realise something has changed. Like I did, twenty-five years ago, on a sultry May morning.