Bipin: The Man Behind the Uniform
Bipin: The Man Behind the Uniform
Bipin: The Man Behind the Uniform by Rachna Bisht Rawat is a hardcover for readers who enjoy fiction with real texture to it. Runs to about 288 pages, so it's an easy book to lose an evening to, and a nice one to give.
What it's about
On the morning of 8 December 2021, India's Chief of Defence Staff, General Bipin Rawat, and his wife, Madhulika, said goodbye to their daughter, Tarini, and dogs, and left their Delhi home to board a flight for Sulur in Tamil Nadu. Around 11.48 a.m., they boarded an Mi-17 V5 helicopter that took off from Sulur to Wellington, where Gen. Rawat was to deliver a lecture at the Defence Services Staff College. Just a few minutes away from its destination, the chopper crashed, and all fourteen passengers onboard eventually perished. It was a sudden and shocking end to the life of a man who had risen like a meteor in the defence forces.
Bipin: The Man behind the Uniform is the story of the NDA cadet who was relegated in the third term for not being able to do a mandatory jump into the swimming pool; of the young Second Lieutenant who was tricked into losing his ID card at the Amritsar railway station by a 5/11 Gorkha Rifles officer posing as his sahayak; of the Major with a leg in plaster who was carried up to his company post on the Pakistan border because he insisted on joining his men for Dusshera celebrations under direct enemy observation; of the Army Chief who decided India would retaliate immediately and openly to every act of cross-border terrorism; of the Chief of Defence Staff who was happiest dancing the jhamre with his Gorkha troops.
Written by bestselling author Rachna Bisht Rawat and featuring in-depth interviews with Bipin Rawat's friends, family members and comrades, this book is a befitting tribute to one of India's greatest and most controversial Generals.
Book details
- Author: Rachna Bisht Rawat
- Format: Hardcover
- Language: English
- Pages: 288
- Publisher: Books
- Dimensions: 19.99 x 5 x 24.99 cm
- Category: Non-Fiction
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Bipin: The Man Behind the Uniform is written by Rachna Bisht Rawat.
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