Savie Karnel

Oct 26, 2024 | theweek.in | Anna Benjamin |Savie Karnel

Dilli chalo!”was the war cry of hardened soldiers in the Indian National Army camps in Burma in 1944. The youngest of these soldiers was Laxmi Panda, whose extraordinary tale you discover as you read Savie Karnel’s Laxmi Panda: The Story of Netaji’s Youngest Spy. Her story shows the struggles of those caught in the crossfire of World War II―stuck between the British, who were ruling India, and the Japanese, who wanted to drive away the Allied powers.