On a January morning in 2018, minutes before a Republic Day flypast rehearsal, Squadron Leader Varlin Panwar sat before a radar screen at a frontline Indian Air Force base and watched an unidentified aircraft drift towards the border. There was no time to deliberate. As a fighter controller, her job was to read the sky and act on it, so she ordered an interception, and the aircraft turned away before it could become a threat. Years later, Panw…
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