Stephen Barker's Lion of the Skies remembers Hardit Singh Malik, India's first fighter pilot in WW-I

Sqn Ldr Rana TS Chhina (Retd)
Before World War I, Indians were not allowed to be commissioned as officers in the fighting services. The war, however, acted as a catalyst for change, and by 1919, a fe

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