Yeh Dil Maange More: Remembering Captain Vikram Batra, My Brother | The Untold Story of India’s Kargil Hero Vikram Batra (PVC) Through His Twin Brother’s Eyes by Anupma Mehta and Vishal Batra
ABOUT THE BOOK
Yeh Dil Maange More is the story of a hero who never truly left us. When Captain Vikram Batra ascended the icy mountains of Kargil, he carried a nation’s hopes on his shoulders. When he returned wrapped in the Tricolour, he became immortal.A heartbreaking and deeply inspiring true story of Martyr Captain Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra awardee and the face of India’s victory in the 1999 Kargil War, told through the eyes of his identical twin brother, these pages carry the memories no history book ever captured. From the childhood days to the unbearable silence left behind after the war took one of them away.
This is not just a book about battle. It is a story about love, loss, courage, family, and the price of patriotism. It is about a 24-year-old Indian Army officer who smiled in the face of death and whose words, ‘Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolour, or I will come back wrapped in it’, still send shivers through the heart of a nation.
Raw, intimate, and unforgettable, Yeh Dil Maange More is a tribute to every soldier who never came home, every family that continues to wait, and every Indian who still feels a surge of emotions on hearing the name, Captain Vikram Batra.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anupma Mehta is senior consulting editor at National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi, and a publishing and communications professional with over thirty years of experience across research institutions, UN bodies, publishing houses and the social sector. She has written widely on gender and economics for leading national dailies and has worked with a range of organizations, including UN Women, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, McGraw-Hill India and Ahmedabad University. She holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in English literature from Delhi University and a postgraduate diploma from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi.
Vishal Batra is the identical younger twin brother of Captain Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra awardee and one of India’s most celebrated heroes of the Kargil War. Born just fourteen minutes apart and raised together in Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, the brothers shared an extraordinary bond built on friendship, love and shared dreams. Both aspired to join the armed forces together, but while Vikram went on to wear the uniform and became immortalized in India’s military history, Vishal was not recommended―twice―by the Services Selection Board. In many ways, he continues to live that dream by carrying forward Vikram’s legacy and sharing the deeply human story behind the hero. To Vishal, Vikram was never just a national icon but his closest companion and other half. Through his memories and reflections, he keeps alive not only Vikram’s courage and patriotism but also the warmth, humour and humanity of the man behind the uniform.
Vishal Batra is the identical younger twin brother of Captain Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra awardee and one of India’s most celebrated heroes of the Kargil War. Born just fourteen minutes apart and raised together in Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, the brothers shared an extraordinary bond built on friendship, love and shared dreams. Both aspired to join the armed forces together, but while Vikram went on to wear the uniform and became immortalized in India’s military history, Vishal was not recommended―twice―by the Services Selection Board. In many ways, he continues to live that dream by carrying forward Vikram’s legacy and sharing the deeply human story behind the hero. To Vishal, Vikram was never just a national icon but his closest companion and other half. Through his memories and reflections, he keeps alive not only Vikram’s courage and patriotism but also the warmth, humour and humanity of the man behind the uniform.
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