Captain Vikram Batra, fondly remembered as the “Shershah of Kargil,” was a brave officer of the Indian Army whose heroic actions in the Kargil War of 1999 earned him the nation’s highest gallantry award, the Param Vir Chakra, posthumously. Born on 9 September 1974 in Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, Captain Batra was the elder twin son […]