FLOWERS FROM THE TOLOLING BATTLEFIELD (DRASS LOC) OF KARGIL WAR (14000-15,000 FT)

[vikram jit singh]

Dear Mr. Garg,

Could the members of the esteemed group assist in the ID of these wild flowers from the Tololing battlefield of 14000-15000 ft, Drass LOC Sector. The photos were taken on July 29, 2024, by Deodatta Deshmukh, a member of the Central Railways expedition team to the Tololing summit. 

The battle of Tololing was waged from May 22, 1999, to June 13, 1999, and was reckoned as the 'turning point' of the Kargil War - Op Vijay.  The fall of Tololing lent the belief to the Indian armed services that Kargil could be taken back from the Pakistan Army entrenched on the dominating heights.

Best regards,

Vikram Jit Singh,

Chandigarh.

(Handphones: 9814019356, 7347347677)

Golf Columnist, Defence reportage and Wildlife Correspondent: 

The Times of India at Chandigarh (India). 

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toireporter/author-Vikram-Jit-Singh.cms 

Sunday Wildbuzz Columnist at the Hindustan Times, Chandigarh, since January 8, 2012.

[Saroj Kasaju]

Please post different species in separate mails. Please go through the postingguidelines!

Thank you.

Saroj Kasaju

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[vikram jit singh]

Dear Mr Kasaju,

The last time around in July 2019 when I had posted pics of wild flowers from the Kargil battlefields of the high altitudes,  you had reacted similarly. 

My requirement is very limited as I am a news journalist and I seek their identification for the purpose of a news article. I have numbered them for an easy reference. The limited information I have on the flowers I have furnished in the preface to the request. My endeavour is to place the war in a different context for readers at large by referring to the wild flowers found in a famous battlefield. During the war, the natural world was represented only by these flowers as the birds and animals had fled the ridgelines. 

Thank you.

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[J.M. Garg]

Identification is not easy with a single low res. image of a species. 

There are many differing views on prospective ids.

So it is better to post these in separate mails so that it becomes easier to get proper ids, where ever possible after discussions. 

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[vikram jit singh]

1. These are all the pics I have.

2. I desired their identification at the earliest for a news article due to the Kargil Vijay Divas celebrations last week.

3. efloraindia members had kindly identified the flowers in a similar format request I had made in July 2019:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/efloraindia+vikramjitsingh67%40gmail.com+flowers+khalubar+tololing/KtbxLxGkNDbPpkDZrgcNrhrZGLxzVWKKPg

4. In case, you think it will help matters, I can send each of the pics of low res in separate emails.

Thank you.

[J.M. Garg]

4. In case, you think it will help matters, I can send each of the pics of low res in separate emails.- > Yes that will be better.

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[vikram jit singh]

Here go the pics of Tololing flowers in separate emails. Please ID the species.

Thank you.

[vikram jit singh]

Here go the pics of Tololing flowers in separate emails. Please ID the species.

[vikram jit singh]

Here go the pics of Tololing flowers in separate emails. Please ID the species.

[vikram jit singh]

[vikram jit singh]

[vikram jit singh]

[vikram jit singh]

[vikram jit singh]

[vikram jit singh]

[J.M. Garg]

Vikram Jit ji,

Different mails with different subjects and not in the same mail as now. 

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[vikram jit singh]

Garg jee,

My thanks to the members of efloraofindia for identifying the flowering shrubs of the Tololing battlefield, 14000-15000 ft.

The article is attached.

Regards.

[J.M. Garg]

Thanks, Vikram ji

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With regards,
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