This month 25 years ago, India was caught unawares as Pakistani troops in the guise of terrorists intruded into the Kargil sector. What followed was a war that eventually culminated in an Indian military victory two months later.
I was then posted in Guwahati as the Northeast correspondent for ‘Outlook’ magazine. An urgent call from the Editor’s (Vinod Mehta) office brought me to Delhi where I was told to proceed to Leh the very next day.
The onward journey began on June 2, 1999 and the areas I had never visited before would be my area of operation for the next 45-odd days. It was tough but an experience I cherish to date; I recall the journey in this episode of ‘Simply Nitin’.
Nitin A. Gokhale is a media entrepreneur, one of South Asia's leading strategic affairs analyst and author of over a dozen books so far on military history, insurgencies and wars.
Starting his career in journalism in 1983, he has since led teams of journalists across media platforms.
A specialist in conflict coverage, Gokhale has covered the insurgencies in India’s North-East, the 1999 Kargil conflict and Sri Lanka’s Eelam War IV between 2006-2009.
Gokhale now travels across the globe to speak at seminars and conferences, and lecture at India’s premier defence colleges. He has founded three niche portals, Bharatshakti.in, stratnewsglobal.com and Interstellar.news.
