The name “Operation Sindoor” is searing. In one word, it captures the unimaginable loss of the women whose husbands were killed in the 22 April 2025 Pahalgam terror attack.
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00:00The name Operation Sindur is searing. In one word, it captures the unimaginable loss of the women
00:05whose husbands were killed in the 22 April 2025 Behelgam terror attack. Sindur, the vermilion
00:10applied in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women, became a national metaphor for
00:15mourning as these women wiped theirs off, not in private grief, but amid a wave of collective
00:20outrage. In striking back with Operation Sindur, India reclaimed the dignity of its citizens,
00:25especially its women who bore the cost of peace with their partners' lives. Here are some of the
00:30women who lost their husbands in the terror attack. This is Himanshi Narwal, the young wife of Lieutenant
00:36Vinay Narwal, a 26-year-old Indian Navy officer from Haryana who was killed while on his honeymoon in
00:41Behelgam. The couple had married just a week before the attack, having tied the knot on April 16,
00:462025. This is Ashanya Dvivedi, the wife of Shubham Dvivedi, a tourist from Uttar Pradesh who was
00:52killed in the Behelgam attack. The couple had been married only two months earlier. Sheetal is the
00:58wife of Shailesh Kalathia, a banker from Surat Gujarat who was killed while on a family vacation to
01:03celebrate his birthday. Sheetal was at the meadow with her husband and their two children, a son and
01:08a daughter, with a terrorist truck. This is Sohini Adhikari, the wife of Bittan Adhikari, an IT
01:13professional from Kolkata who was killed in the Behelgam attack. Bittan had been working in the US and was
01:19back in India on vacation. The couple travelled to Kashmir along with their three-and-a-half-year-old
01:23son, Hridan. This is Kajal Ben Parmar. Her husband, Yatish Pai Parmar, ran a cello in Bhavanagar, Gujarat.
01:30He had come to Kashmir with family. This is Pragati Jagdale, the wife of Santosh Jagdale of
01:35Maharashtra, slain in the April 22 Pehalgaam massacre. Sheila Ramchandran from Kochi lost her husband,
01:41N. Ramchandran, 65 years old, in Pehalgaam. He was gunned down in front of his daughters and grandsons.
01:48Jennifer Nathaniel, 54 years old, is the wife of Sushil Nathaniel, a 58-year-old LIC branch manager
01:53from Indore, Madhya Pradesh. When terrorists confronted them, Sushil heroically urged his
01:58wife to hide and face the gunmen alone. Jaya Mishra is the wife of Manish Ranjan Mishra,
02:03a 42-year-old intelligence bureau officer who had taken his family to Kashmir for a holiday but was
02:08tragically shot dead by terrorists in front of his wife and kids in Pehalgaam. Each of these women
02:14endured a devastating loss on Pehalgaam's Paisaran Meadow. It was their Sindhu the Indian Armed Forces
02:19avenged on 7th May.