“How many more of these pilots have to give up their life to shake you up and make you realise there is something really wrong in the system?” asks Garima Abrol, wife of Squadron Leader Samir Abrol, who was killed after a Mirage 2000 aircraft that he and Squadron Leader Siddharth Negi were test flying crashed at the HAL airport in Bengaluru on 1 February.

In a detailed Facebook post on Sunday, 10 February, Garima has vowed to fight against the fallacies in the system as soldiers continue to lose their lives in the country.

“I am Garima Abrol… I am the wife of Martyr Squadron Leader Samir Abrol… whose tears are still not dry… It still hasn’t sunk in that you are gone. No one has the answer to my questions. Why YOU?”