Following I-Day celebrations at the Red Fort, President Droupadi Murmu visited the war memorial in Delhi to honour those who made the ultimate sacrifice in the armed conflicts of independent India.
ThePrint walks around the National War Memorial at India Gate in New Delhi & looks back at the stories of those who sacrificed their lives in the war and were awarded top gallantry medals.
Rathore’s comment comes as ex-Servicemen argue over use of ‘mercenary’ for British Indian Army soldiers, after Amar Jawan Jyoti was merged with National War Memorial flame.
Flame at India Gate was lit in Jan 1972 by Indira Gandhi to commemorate 1971 war. Now, it's getting 'merged' with the one at National War Memorial, which was drawn from it.
Govt sources said a lot of misinformation was being spread regarding the flame of Amar Jawan Jyoti, which they stressed is being merged with the flame at National War Memorial.
Ravi Khanna was one of 4 IAF personnel shot dead in Kashmir in 1990, allegedly by a group led by Yasin Malik. The others’ names were already up on the memorial.
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On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
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