A five-year-old Major just walked into Rashtrapati Bhavan… and rewrote a page of Army history.
Her name is Major Navya Shekhawat.
And she just became the first woman Indian Army officer ever appointed Aide-de-Camp to the President.
Let that sink in.
Not a General. Not a three-star veteran with three decades behind her.
A Major. Five years in.
This isn't a ceremonial footnote.
The President's ADC:
It's one of the most trusted, most visible staff jobs in the entire Armed Forces.
And for the first time ever, a woman from the Army wears that badge.
She didn't come from a combat arm.
She came from the Army Service Corps — the branch that quietly runs logistics, transport, and supply for the entire military machine.
The unglamorous backbone.
Turns out, excellence doesn't care which branch you started in.
Five years. Start to Rashtrapati Bhavan.
Lieutenant Commander Yashasvi Solanki broke this ground for the Navy in 2025.
Now the Army has its own first.
Two branches. Two barriers down. In back-to-back years.
Women only entered the Army via Short Service Commission in 1992.
It took the Supreme Court's 2020 verdict to unlock real command opportunities for them.
Now, six years later, a woman officer stands right beside the President — representing every uniform in the country.
Merit found its way to the front door.
And it didn't knock quietly.
That's all for now!
