‘Keep your feet on the ground, your eyes on the sky’ was the quote that Flight Lieutenant Gunjan Saxena, India’s first female Air Force pilot to enter into Kargil war zone in 1999, swore by. Born in an Army family in UP, she had only one dream while growing up –to spread her wings and fly. Her father is from Badaun and mother from Etawah.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/eyes-on-the-sky-this-kargil-girl-scripted-history-in-1999-war-zone/articleshow/77176257.cms