Shaheed Sepoy Dhondiba Desai (kargil war)

Shaheed Sepoy Dhondiba Desai
Hope shattered for the family of 22-year-old Sepoy Dhondiba Desai who died in a mine blast at Kargil this May 25.
The 8th Battalion, Madras Regiment officer from Vadagaun, Karnataka, where every other family has a jawan in the army, was supporting his family comprising his parents, two brothers and a sister. Two acres of land was meagre holding for a large family to eke a living from. Dhondiba's helping hand enabled them to acquire more land, a colour TV, helped them hope for a college education for his matriculate brother Prabhakar. "What'll we do now?" wails his mother Anandibai.
Shaheed Sepoy Bajindra Singh
Soldier cremated without honours

>Six-feet-tall Bajinder died while protecting the borders of the country on May 27. Son of a soldier, Jagdish Chand, he was the youngest of two brothers and a sister. He joined the Army at the age of 21 and visited the village about two months back for the last time at the time of his sisters marriage.

Having no prior intimation about the death of her young son, Santosh Kumari, whose husband died seven years back, couldn't believe her eyes when the coffin carrying the body of her son, reached the village at about 6 a.m. yesterday morning. She was alone in the house. Her elder son Vijay is employed at a petrol station in Chandigarh. Unable to come to the terms to the tragedy that had struck her, she was in consolable, as the coffin was brought to the house.

The decomposed remains of the valiant soldier were brought to the village in a taxi by a Havildar of the 16 Grenadiers to which Bajinder belonged. His body was flown to Jammu, from where it was brought here in a taxi. He was killed while fighting infiltrators on May 27, 1999