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Barkha Dutt : Hi friends, its great to see so many of you on this page and I am hoping to re-boot my presence here on Facebook and have interesting conversations and arguments with many of you going forward! Today I am sharing a slice of personal history with you. This is a photograph of my mother Prabha Dutt (nee Bahl) at the war front in Punjab during the 1965 war with Pakistan. Her newspaper, the Hindustan Times declined her request to go and report on the war as she was a woman.

So she took ten days off from work, pretended she had to meet her parents and went to the front anyway ! This picture is of her saluting a tank of the 3 Cavalry that won the Battle of Asal Uttar for India. They came to be known as the Patton Wreckers. In so many ways my mother’s battle to report from the front as a woman prefaced my own in 1999 when I fought to report from the frontline of the Kargil War. Mum in 65, Daughter in 99! Am sure many of you have personal memories of 1965 in your family. Do share them here. I am heading to the Punjab border this weekend for a special show with war veterans and will keep all of you updated as I step back into history.

बरखा दत्त की मां प्रभा दत्त की तस्वीर देखने के लिए नीचे दिख रहे 3 या Next पर क्लिक करें>>

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