Kargil reports from 1999: The price soldiers pay
(WorldNews India)

This war is not about peaks and ridges on this damned frontier; it is about the men trying to hold them against odds that other men and nature have together mounted. You get only one life and these men have been ready to lose it far from their home and hearth and family for as little as a patch of cold unyielding earth that wouldn´t even offer them space for final rest but which is part of what we proudly call our nation. In the end, they just become ungainly dead-weights on the backs of unknown mules, their dignity wrapped in ragged blankets. If they are fortunate, these blankets will somewhere have a little badge of honour pinned - an inch of metal for miles of the motherland. `What is...