Yeh Dil Maange More: Remembering Captain Vikram Batra, My Brother | The Untold Story of India’s

Vikram Batra, Hero for the Nation ... A Brother Forever Missed

Yeh Dil Maange More is the story of a hero who never truly left us. When Captain Vikram Batra ascended the icy mountains of Kargil, he carried a nation’s hopes on his shoulders. When he returned wrapped in the Tricolour, he became immortal.

A heartbreaking and deeply inspiring true story of Martyr Captain Vikram Batra, Param Vir Chakra awardee and the face of India’s victory in the 1999 Kargil War, told through the eyes of his identical twin brother, these pages carry the memories no history book ever captured. From the childhood days to the unbearable silence left behind after the war took one of them away.

This is not just a book about battle. It is a story about love, loss, courage, family, and the price of patriotism. It is about a 24-year-old Indian Army officer who smiled in the face of death and whose words, ‘Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolour, or I will come back wrapped in it’, still send shivers through the heart of a nation.

Raw, intimate, and unforgettable, Yeh Dil Maange More is a tribute to every soldier who never came home, every family that continues to wait, and every Indian who still feels a surge of emotions on hearing the name, Captain Vikram Batra.

Anupma Mehta is senior consulting editor at National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi, and a publishing and communications professional with over thirty years of experience across research institutions, UN bodies, publishing houses and the social sector. She has written widely on gender and economics for leading national dailies and has worked with a range of organizations, including UN Women, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, McGraw-Hill India and Ahmedabad University. She holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in English literature from Delhi University and a postgraduate diploma from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi.