MUSIC ZONE

PUNJABI ANTENNA

Earlier Feature

A sizeable population of villages neighbouring the border is crippled and maimed.
Seema Sharma traces the reasons behind the tragedy

EVEN a decade after the Kargil war was fought, its tragic reverberations continue to echo in the tales of numerous villagers, living in the nondescript border areas of Suchetgarh and RS Pura, who have lost their limbs in landmine blasts. Almost all border villages have the same tales to tell. A sizeable number of people in these villages can be seen limping on their crutches or shakily walking on artificial legs.

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