An Army wife’s Night to Remember

This is an article written by Nilakshi Jatar née Bal* and published in the December 1996 edition of the Indian Express. It is about one of her personal war-time experiences.

We hear so much of what the soldiers go through that we often forget what the women and the family go through when their men are at war. They face it as bravely as any soldier would, even when they have little ones to protect.

• The late Nilakshi Jatar was the wife of Brig. Raghunath Jatar, who is the son of Abasaheb and the grandson of Shriram Jatar.