Ajit Duara
To set a film almost entirely in the claustrophobic confines of a war machine, and to keep your attention fixed on it, needs high quality writing
Indian pilots spared Pakistani civilians in the 1965 war that started after a wily Zulfikar Ali Bhutto instigated General Ayub Khan to send soldiers to create trouble in Kashmir. Fifty years later, the author revisits the war for lessons learnt and tales of bravery
The most patriotic Indians are the Baltis of Turtuk in Ladakh, the only part of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir that we ever managed to wrest back