Yogendra Singh Yadav was born on May 10, 1980 in the Ahir village of Aurangabad in Bulandshahr district of Uttar Pradesh.
Rank—Grenadier, Retired as Honorary Captain
Unit—18 Grenadiers
War—Kargil War (Operation Vijay – 1999)
Award—ParamVir Chakra
Recognition—five months old when he joined the Indian Army. He became the youngest 'ParamVir Chakra' awardee at the age of 19 years.
The entire world will always remember the exemplary valour displayed by the Indian soldiers in the Kargil war. Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav not only defeated the enemy but also dodged death in this war. At the time of receiving the ParamVir Chakra award he was only 19 years of age. He is the youngest soldier to have received the ParamVir Chakra.
Born on September 4, 1975 in Delhi, Rishi Raj is working as Joint General Manager in the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, a Public Sector Undertaking of the Government of India. In the year 1994, the tour of India started with the appointment in Indian Railways. Till now he has visited major tourist places of all 36 States/Union Territories of the country and has visited ten countries of Asia, Australia and Europe globally. From the religious point of view, he has also completed the journey of Kailash Mansarovar, Twelve Jyotirlingas and Char Dham.
Rishi Raj made his writing debut in the year 2012 with 'Kailash Darshan - Kuch Yaadein, Kuch Baatein' based on his experiences of visiting Kailash Mansarovar. In the year 2015, his book 'Discovering Incredible India' and then in the year 2017 'Patriotic Pilgrimage of Patriotism' was published and then in the year 2019, the book "Journey of an Indian to Japan" came out on the experience of the days spent in Japan. All these books were honored with the Rahul Sankrityayan Award by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India.
"50 Great Freedom Fighters" was released in December 2019. In the year 2022, his book dedicated to the martyrs of the Kargil war, "Kargil-Ek Yatri ki Zubaani" has come out, written by him after visiting the Kargil battlefield twice and meeting the families of the soldiers who were martyred in the Kargil war. Which makes this book different from other books written on the subject of Kargil.
In the year 2019, the author adopted the medium of “Chitravali” to introduce children to the historical events of national importance in a new way, in this series, first of all, on the completion of 100 years of the Jallianwala Bagh incident, “Listen children of Jallianwala Bagh Story” and then in the year 2022 also wrote seven paintings depicting the life story of the warriors of Kargil war. These picture books have been greatly appreciated in schools and now all these picture books are being published in English and Gujarati as well.
Apart from this, Rishi Raj has so far produced about 125 short films related to patriotism and major tourist and historical places of India, which are available on his YouTube channel Exploring India with Rishi.
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