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Letters from Kargil
by Diksha Dwivedi
The war through our soldiers' eyes. A daughter who lost her father at Kargil tells the story of that war through the letters and diaries of the men who fought it — intimate, emotional and deeply human.
Major C.B. Dwivedi, SM
315 Field Regiment · The Regiment of Artillery
Balidan Diwas · 2 July 1999
Honour his sacrificeAbout the Book
Letters from Kargil tells the story of the 1999 war through the letters and diaries of the soldiers who fought it — and of the families who waited for them.
Diksha Dwivedi was a child when her father, Major C.B. Dwivedi, SM, fell at Kargil. Years later she returned to that grief, gathering the words soldiers wrote home to render the most human and personal portrait of the war ever written.
It is intimate, emotional, and unflinching — letters of love and longing set against feet deep in snow and the relentless fire of high-altitude battle.
Diksha Dwivedi is an author, entrepreneur and storyteller. Letters from Kargil (2017) was her first book; through her work she continues to champion storytelling as a means of connection and remembrance.
With feet deep in snow and alert with their guns, our soldiers responded to each threat with twice the intensity — but my heart was somewhere else.
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