#SriLanka wasn't always an island. Most people today know Sri Lanka as a gorgeous island in Indian Ocean. However, most do know that it wasn't always an island. In 1480 a cyclone destroyed a strip of land, called Rama Setu, that connected it to #India (1/9 - read all) 2.Ram Setu or Rama’s Bridge is a causeway created across the sea connecting Pamban Island in Tamil Nadu to Mannar Island in Sri Lanka

The lady who Designed the PARAM VIR CHAKRA, #IndianArmy's highest gallantry award, Savitri Khanolkar, was a Swiss national whose real name was Eve Yvonne Maday de Maros, married to an Indian Army officer, Vikram Ramji Khanolkar 1/n ( please read all) In 1929, she met Vikram Khanolkar, a young Indian Army cadet undergoing training at Sandhurst who had come to Switzerland for a break. She was still a teenager then; however, both fell in love although Vikram was much older than her. She came to India in 1932 and married Vikram