In 1999, 6-year-old Ruksana, who lives in the Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, saw her father being murdered by militants, and out of shock, lost her ability to speak. In the same year that Ruksana’s father was murdered, Captain Vijayant Thapar, a 22-year old Indian Army officer, was posted in the district, with a battalion of the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles. When Captain Thapar heard about Ruksana’s plight, he […]