Few know that Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military decoration, was designed by a woman. Lost in the pages of history, Eve Yvonne Maday de Maros (who changed her name to Savitribai Khanolkar) was just 19 when she ran away to India.
The unhealed memories of partition remain raw even today. Manik Varadkar’s loyalties and love now lie with the country she inhabited but ancestors’ homeland is something she will never forget.
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