‘Apne mian ko mat jaane do Col Kumar ke saath’
Had it not been for a German expedition wishing to go rafting on the Indus River in North-west India’s Ladakh region in 1975, this book would not have been written!
Thanks to that expedition, Col Narinder “Bull” Kumar, India’s most famous military mountaineer came in possession of maps that indicated ‘cartographic aggression’ by Pakistan on the Siachen Glacier and the quiet alteration to the map of the Karakoram Range of mountains!
One discovery led to another, resulting in India pre-empting a Pakistani military operation by launching its own in April 1984, triggering a standoff at Siachen, inarguably the world’s highest battlefield...Read More
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.
