In a significant milestone for the Indian military, for the first time, three female pilots – Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh – were recently inducted into an Indian Air Force fighter squadron. All hail to the three pilots! But are you aware of the fact that this is not the very first time our women pilots fought for the country?Back during the Kargil War, Indian women aviators were flying over the active war zones. It was long before IAF formally took them as Fighter Pilots.

    We introduce you to Gunjan Saxena and Srividya Rajan. These were the Indian women pilots who proved their mettle and were a part of Indo-Pak War in Kargil. Gunjan Saxena and Srividya Rajan. Names of India’s first women combat aviators who went all guns blazing into the heart of the war zone that was Kargil, eighteen years ago.

   This is the story of their bravery. Gunjan Saxena had grown up in a family of....