The Kargil War, was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999. The pictures and stories published in the newspapers and magazines drove me to a point to write my own story about the whole conflict. I drew inspiration from my self opinion and the moving tales of war -heroes.
One of my most diffcult writings, this one is quite quite special:
A brief review :
The war in Kargil is on and bodies of dead soldiers are being brought from the war ravaged sectors to be delivered to their Kith and kin. A freelance journalist Amit Pandey hired by a current affairs magazine travels along these carriages to cover the agony the families suffer on receiving their dead sons, husbands ,brothers or friends.The coverage by the journo earns him a chance to travel to the heart of the war and report the apathy of the warriors and the people .
Amidst the war zone, the reporter lands in the Kargil and Drass sectors and finds a whole conglomerate of journalists,cameramans,TV correspondents and other crews braving the chilly winds to cover first hand reportage. Amongst this crowd is the most daring young lady Anjali Bhatt out to be the first amongst the first. Her brattiest and egoistic nature has made her envy of all . Amit with his enigmatic background of an dropout Army Cadet, a novelist, a photographer and then a freelancer and now a War reporter becomes a source of competition for Anjali who thinks this war reportage is a chance for her to become the best of the best. A strong war of words begins between the overconfident Anjali and the brooding and serious no-nonsense Amit.
Amit is determined to stick to his task and brave every difficulty to reach to the core of the common people ‘s heart and bring their opinion out to the world and show it to the world that the real sufferers of the political and military chaos over the Kashmir dispute are the ordinary man – the man who makes tea in his shabby tea stall at those heights , the man who cuts wood , the small boy who ferries fruit baskets, the herdsmen and their families who never sleep for the fear of a bomb and shell looms large .
The story brings the real coverage of the war alive with accounts of such heart pinching and terribly ironical and tragic travails from the battle scenes and from the life of the people of the valley. The story differs from any similar repots and coverage in magazines and TV on the very ground it relates to and makes a stronger and bolder point in every sense and measure in the form of Amit Pandey ‘s trail.
The later and best part of the story deals with the capturing of the Tiger Hill . A perfect docu-drama wherein Anjali Bhatt is irrepressible and upfront to beat all others as she dares to go where nobody has ever thought of, albeit a dangerous move she decides with her cameraman.
The whole episode of the Tiger Hill is dealt brilliantly wherein Amit Pandey reverses his desires and takes charge while the brave Soldiers fight out the most horrible battle. More intense and bone chilling scenes make the reader sit and ponder over the issue all in all.
The Screaming Winds is a” out of the war and into it” account of a man who is an Indian , a soldier, a Kasmiri later but a human first and there is where it scores above all when Amit returns with a broken leg, Anjali resigns from her job and a soldier shoots himself after he incidentally kills a young boy. It says it all when Amit writes that the winds of the valley still scream.With the sounds of gunfire .
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