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Eva and the Param Vir Chakra

India's highest military decoration, the Param Vir Chakra, was designed by Savitri Khanolkar, a lady who was born Eve Yvonne Maday de Maros in Switzerland and was of Hungarian-Russian ancestry. She was married to Major-General Vikram Khanolkar of the Sikh Regiment.

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Rather fatefully, the first Param Vir Chakra was awarded to her elder daughter's brother-in-law Major Som Nath Sharma from the Kumaon Regiment who was posthumously awarded the medal for his valour during the 1947-48 Indo-Pak war in Kashmir.