COLONEL MAHIP CHADHA was commissioned in 1966 into The Second Battalion The Third Gorkha Rifles; one of the finest battalions in the world which had the honour of winning two Victoria Crosses in WWI.
The battalion saw action in both the World Wars returning to India after a final stint in Pakistan, and was taken over by Indian Officers at Ferozepore. Colonel Chadha retired in Jun 2000, after which he worked in various jobs till he finally retired as the President of Helios Aviation. He turned to writing after the demise of his wife Kiran in 2010.
Mrs. Kiran Arvind is an Army Housewife married to Colonel Arvind Kumar who is from the Army Medical Corps. Not with standing the facts that Mrs. Arvind Kumar never visited the National Defence Academy or the Indian Military Academy, she has miraculously produced an authentic account of the lives of Cadets at both the institutions.
It is to her credit that she has the will power to write a book about the Army when she found that this noble institution was being degenerated by certain elements when actually it stands for the symbol of integration and secularism in this country.
She chose to write this book to explain the life of an officer in the infantry from his initiation in the Army to his death at the hands of an innocent but pressurised child who becomes a victim of the terrorist movement who has stolen the piece and tranquility of the Kashmir Valley.
You will laugh and cry as she proceeds with her narrative and probably feel part of this great tragedy which has befallen the peaceful countryside in Kashmir and forced a proxy war on the Indian Army.
The author hopes that the spark of patriotism present in every Indian citizen may rekindle after reading the book.