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Are the Armed Forces now more open to hard-hitting, objective writing?

By IANS | Updated: January 2, 2022 11:50 IST

New Delhi, Jan 2 General Ved Prakash Malik's endorsement of Shiv Kunal Verma's epic book, "1965: A Western ...

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New Delhi, Jan 2 General Ved Prakash Malik's endorsement of Shiv Kunal Verma's epic book, "1965: A Western Sunrise" is a show stopper in its own right. It's a classic case where some of the points being made by the former army chief, who was at the helm of affairs in 1999 when Pakistan's Northern Light Infantry, under the guise of the Mujahideen, ingressed into the Drass and Kargil Sectors, are perhaps as interesting as Verma's book itself.

Since Independence, for 75 years a lot of water has flown down the Indus and the Brahmaputra rivers. With India's northern boundary defined by the geographical entity of the Himalayas and the western frontier by the whimsical machinations of the British

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