This is the face of a new India: Nimrat on 17 women cadets graduating from NDA

Nimrat Kaur is proud —as a woman and as an Army kid. As 17 women cadets are set to graduate from the National Defence Academy (NDA) for the first time ever, on May 30, Nimrat says, "Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru (former India Prime Minister) had said, 'You can tell the condition of a nation by looking at the status of its women'. This is the face of a new India, where women lead from the front on our front lines, shoulder-to-shoulder alongside men. As a woman and an Army daughter, nothing makes me prouder."

- Rishabh Suri

The 43-year-old's father, Major Bhupinder Singh was killed in action in Kashmir in 1994 and was posthumously awarded the Shaurya