KARGIL CONVERSATIONS : COLONEL SONAM WANGCHUK |THE LION OF LADAKH|

Kargil Conversations with Rachna Bisht Rawat
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Colonel Sonam Wangchuk, MVC, first captured the nation’s imagination and his people’s reverence when he and his team of men from the Ladakh Scouts stormed Chorbat La in 1999; an act of such exemplary daring that it turned the tide of the Kargil War and earned Col Wangchuk, then a Major, a Maha Vir Chakra (India’s second highest wartime military decoration). Chorbat La lies in the high ranges that mark the Line of Control. Nothing thrives here except barley fields, Buddhism and the belief of a hardy people that flutters as high as the prayer flags. Over centuries, Chorbat La has been a gateway for marauding invaders who were repulsed by Ladakhi kings.
On a cold night in June 1999, Maj Wangchuk took a leaf out of the book of his kings, and along with the Ladakh Scouts, a regiment of men drawn from these parts and known as the Snow Tigers, launched an offensive to recapture the pass from Pakistani troops. The Ladakh Scouts was raised in 1948 as the Nubra Guards, and re-formed as an infantry regiment in 2000, after it negotiated ice walls to script an incredible story that has made it to textbooks.
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[@mountaincommando3582]

Mrs. Rawat, I am reading Kargil Untold Stories at the moment. Wonderfully written with due justice to factual accuracy and first person account. Thank you for your diligent work and allowing us to re-live this history and the immortal sacrifices of our soldiers

[@kensrockz5171]

Its such a wonderful experience to listen Col. Sonam Wangchuk, i greatly owe my sincere thanks to his service to our nation during kargil, but what a lesson taught by his parents during his younger days and these kind of moral values imported in your younger days, they will come out as a great human

[@inspireyouth8542]

Book name biography sir ki