English Literature – Article ☆ Special on the Kargil Vijay Divas ☆ Shri Ajeet Singh, Ex-Director (News) Doordarshan
Shri Ajeet Singh
(We present an article ‘Special on the Kargil Vijay Divas’ written by Shri Ajeet Singh ji, Ex-Director (News), Doordarshan.)
☆ Special on the Kargil Vijay Divas ☆ Shri Ajeet Singh ☆
The war I reported 24 years ago...
Kargil was largely a deserted town when I entered it for four days to report the Kargil war. I was part of an army conducted media party from Srinagar. The party comprising correspondents from major media networks had waited for over three weeks in Srinagar to get army permission to move into the battle field.
I was travelling in the DAVP van along the Film Division team. They had stocked sufficient quota of bread, butter, biscuits and rice to cope with the situation of getting stranded in some cut off place in war zone.
I had a satellite phone too beside my taperecorder.
Crossing the 12000 feet high Zojila, our first halt was a Bofor Guns battery that was pounding the Pakistan army positions across the high hill to provide covering fire to our advancing...