Mee Telugu Ammayi

  Priya Jhingan (1992) becomes the first lady cadet to join the Indian Army (later commissioned on March 6, 1993). Erstwhile male bastion the Indian Army was broken by Priya Jhingan-Army’s first woman. In fact she even wrote to the then Chief of Army Staff, General Sunith Francis Rodrigues requesting him to open doors of the Army to the Indian woman. And in the year 1992, the bright young law graduate joined the ‘hard’ profession. Before she retired she said, “It's a dream I have lived every day for the last 10 years”. On 21 September 1992, the feisty Priya Jhingan enrolled as 001 — the first lady cadet to join the Indian Army. "It's a dream I have lived every day for the last 10 years," says Major Jhingan, formerly OIC, Judge Advocate General, at the Chennai headquarters. That dream ended  days ago for her and 24 of her batch-mates who served out their 10-year commission. Jhingan does not want to think too much about what life's going to be like here on end. She...