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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian Army officer (1960-1999)}}<br />
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{{Infobox military person<br />
| honorific_prefix = [[Lieutenant Colonel]]<br />
| name = R Vishwanathan<br />
| honorific_suffix = [[Vir Chakra|VrC]]<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth date|1960|01|12|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Kochi, Kerala]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1999|06|02|1960|01|12|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = Tololing, [[Kargil district|Kargil]],<br> [[Kashmir]], India<br />
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| branch = [[File:Flag of Indian Army.svg|24px]] [[Indian Army]]<br />
| serviceyears = 1980-1999<br />
| rank = [[File:Lieutenant Colonel of the Indian Army.svg|24px]] [[Lieutenant colonel]]<br />
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| awards = [[File:Vir Chakra ribbon bar.svg|32px]] [[Vir Chakra]]<br />
| unit = [[The Grenadiers|18 Grenadiers]]<br />
| battles = '''[[Kargil War]]'''<br>[[Operation Vijay (1999)|Operation Vijay]]<br />
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| spouse = Jalja Vishwanathan<ref name="jv">{{cite web |title=Photogallery: The Day's Images |url=https://www.rediff.com/news/2000/apr/11pic2.htm |website=Rediff.com |access-date=10 March 2022}}</ref><br />
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[[Lieutenant Colonel]] '''Ramakrishnan Vishwanathan''', [[Vir Chakra|VrC]] was the second-in-command of [[The Grenadiers|18 Grenadiers]] which was conducting operations on and around Tololing mountain, Drass sector, Kargil, during [[Operation Vijay (1999)|Operation Vijay]]. He was posthumously awarded the [[Vir Chakra]] for his actions during the [[Kargil War]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gallantry Awards {{!}} Ministry of Defence, Government of India |url=https://www.gallantryawards.gov.in/awardee/2716 |url-status=live |access-date=2022-03-10 |website=Gallantry Awards}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lt Col Ramakrishnan Vishwanathan, VrC {{!}} Honourpoint |url=https://www.honourpoint.in/profile/lt-col-ramakrishnan-vishwanathan-vrc/ |url-status=live |access-date=2022-03-09 |language=en-US}}</ref> A [[Tripunithura]] a street near [[Eroor Pisharikovil Temple]] is named in his honour.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
Vishwanathan was born to V Ramakrishna Iyer and Kamala, in 1960. He was raised in [[Kochi]] and attended Kendriya Vidyalaya at Gandhi Nagar in [[Kadavanthra]].<ref>[https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2020/07/26/lt-colonel-vishwanathan-kargil-war-kerala-homage.html | https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2020/07/26/lt-colonel-vishwanathan-kargil-war-kerala-homage.html]</ref><br />
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== Military life ==<br />
Vishwanathan was commissioned into the [[Indian Army]] on June 1981 after completing his military training from [[National Defence Academy (India)|National Defence Academy]] in 1980. He had served with the [[Indian Peace Keeping Force|Indian Peacekeeping Force]] in [[Sri Lanka]] and later with the [[UN Peacekeeping forces|UN Peacekeeping Force]]<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WdoYAQAAMAAJ |title=India Today International |date=1999 |publisher=Living Media India Limited |year=1999 |volume=24 |pages=19 |language=en}}</ref> in [[Angola]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Kerala pays homage to Lt Col Vishwanathan, who was martyred in Kargil war |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2020/07/26/lt-colonel-vishwanathan-kargil-war-kerala-homage.html}}</ref><br />
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The then Colonel Khushal Thakur, commanding-officer of the 18 grenadiers, recalled Vishwanathan's courage with the narrative, "The 18 Grenadiers had launched three unsuccessful attacks on Tololing. On June 2, Lt. Col. R Vishwanathan volunteered to go."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Thakur |first=Aksheev |date=26 July 2020 |title=Kargil Vijay Diwas: How Indian soldiers fought Pakistani intruders |work=[[Deccan Chronicle]] |url=https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/in-other-news/260720/kargil-vijay-diwas-how-indian-soldiers-fought-pakistani-intruders.html}}</ref><br />
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==Vir Chakra Citation==<br />
The citation for the [[Vir Chakra]] reads as follows<br />
{{Quotation|{{center|'''Gazette Notification: 113Pres/98,15-8-99'''}}<br />
{{center|'''Operation: Vijay - Kargil'''}}<br />
{{center|'''Date of Award: 1999'''}}<br />
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'''Citation:'''<br />
During 'Operation Vijay', Lieutenant Colonel Ramakrishnan Vishwanathan was the Second-in-Command of 18 Grenadiers, which was conducting operations in the Tololing area of Drass sector. He displayed rare valour in closing in on enemy positions under prohibitive enemy automatic fire and intense artillery shelling, thus taking the enemy by complete surprise along a very difficult approach and terrain at an altitude ofover 15,000 feet.<br />
During the attack, Lieutenant Colonel Vishwanathan sustained multiple gunshot wounds. In spite of being severely injured he refused to be evacuated and exhorted his troops to press on further. He charged through enemy defences destroying three enemy positions and eliminated four intruders single-handedly in a close hand-to-hand combat. Due to his efforts, the battalion could secure afoothold on the enemy location which later facilitated capture of Point 4590.<br />
Though Second-in-Command of his unit, Lieutenant Colonel Ramakrishnan Vishwanathan disregarded his seniority and preferred being where his men were fighting: and led from the front during assaults on well-fortified enemy positions in Tololing. He however succumbed to his injuries making the supreme sacrifice for the nation in the best traditions of the Indian Army.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://twdi.in/node/4759|title=Vir Chakra (VRC), Awardee: Lt Col Ramakrishnan Vishwanathan, VRC @ TWDI}}</ref>}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*http://ikashmir.net/kargilheroes/vishwanathan.html<br />
*http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/ARMY/Galleries/Wars/Kargil/0366.jpg.html<br />
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