A DECADE OF KARGIL:Remembering Our hero

What has come to be known as the Kargil War took place at Kargil from May 1 to July 26, 1999, a border war between India and Pakistan and the fourth in the series of such confrontations since the First Kashmir War of 1947-48. It was also India’s first televised war, whose extensive visual reportage created a overwhelming flow in the national psyche a mere decade or so ago. But much water has happened since then, perhaps diluting if not washing away its memory altogether. So now, a decade later, maybe it is once again time to remember Kargil 1999, to ruminate and retrospect on it in the broader context of events today.