Stories from the Memorial

In this video feature, a Kargil veteran returns to the Tololing ridge for the first time since 1999 and walks the ground his company once fought to take.

The Kargil War Memorial at Dras will observe the 26th Kargil Vijay Diwas with a week of commemorative events from 20 to 26 July 2025.

A wreath-laying ceremony at the Kargil War Memorial marked the anniversary of the capture of Point 4875, since renamed Batra Top.

Before the assault on Knoll, Captain Vijayant Thapar wrote a letter to be opened only if he did not return. It remains one of the war’s most-read documents.

Twenty-six years on, a havildar who fought on Tololing recalls the cold, the climb, and the comrades who did not come down.

The recapture of Tiger Hill combined the heaviest artillery concentration of the war with a near-impossible climb up its unguarded eastern face.

On Khalubar Ridge in the Batalik sub-sector, Lieutenant Manoj Kumar Pandey cleared four enemy bunkers in succession before he fell. He was awarded the Param Vir Chakra.

For three weeks the assault on Tololing stalled against sheer rock and dug-in defenders. Its eventual capture broke the enemy hold over National Highway 1.