Ex-Army major pens book on Kargil war
Chandigarh, July 23
A former city-based Army major, who had figured in the controversies surrounding the 1999 Kargil war, has penned a book on Kashmir and the war. The book is said to be a piece of military fiction that has several coincidences with the war.
The book has two young officers as the central characters who are tasked to investigate the case of a major for events pertaining to the Kargil war.
The author, Manish Bhatnagar, contends that the war and the real game plan behind it has still not been understood and he tries to convey his thoughts in the form of findings and deductions made by the officers in their reports to the higher authorities.
The author, who has served with the Special Forces and is now a practising advocate in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, had faced a general court martial after the war on charges of disobedience of lawful command. His case is pending before the Supreme Court. — TNS
