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“Dear Papa… don’t worry about casualties- it’s a professional hazard beyond our control. At least it is for a good cause. Tell mamma that combat is an honor of a lifetime, and I could not think of anything less. What better way to serve the nation? Tell a story a day from the Mahabharata to Charu so that your grandchild imbibes good values.”
Major Padmapani Acharya born on the 21st of June 1969, was an official in the Indian Army. He was granted the second most noteworthy Indian military honor, Maha Vir Chakra after his death for his operations during the Kargil battle on the 28th of June 1999.
Major Acharya was initially from Odisha and was an inhabitant of Hyderabad, Telangana. Major Acharya was hitched to Charulatha. Acharya’s dad, Jagannath Acharya, was a retired Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force, during 1965 and 1971 battles with Pakistan. He at that point worked with the Defense Research and Development Laboratory (DRDL) in Hyderabad. Acharya was survived by his parents, his wife, and his daughter, Aparajita, who was born a few months after his death. Aparajita Acharya has been an NCC cadet.
Acharya moved on from the Officers Training Academy, Madras in 1993 and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the second unit of The Rajputana Rifles.
At the flare-up of the Kargil War, Acharya was in charge of a Company of 2nd Rajputana Rifles. Acharya’s past discussions with his family, give some knowledge about his mind and quiet perspective. Around ten days before his march to the top, he had written to his father, discussing personal as well as military issues. In a heart-numbing, straightforward letter, he said,
“Dear Papa… don’t worry about casualties- it’s a professional hazard beyond our control. At least it is for a good cause. Tell mamma that combat is an honor of a lifetime, and I could not think of anything less. What better way to serve the nation? Tell a story a day from the Mahabharata to Charu so that your grandchild imbibes good values.”
