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Me and my wife Neha with RAdm Sudarshan Shrikhande |
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Former Home secy Gopal Pillai, Gen VP Malik and Bloomsbury's Suresh Gopal |
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Param Vir Chakra Bana Singh with Siachen veteran Gopal Karunakaran |
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Lt Gen Vinod Bhatia (r) with me and Siachen veteran Ashu Beri |
http://nitinagokhale.blogspot.in/2014/03/how-and-why-i-wrote-book-on-siachen.html
http://www.rediff.com/news/slide-show/slide-show-1-exclusive-secure-the-siachen-glacier/20140318.htm
http://www.mid-day.com/articles/book-review-of-nitin-a-gokhales-book-beyond-nj9842-the-siachen-saga/15203068
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Brig VN Channa (r) with Suresh Gopal and Ashu Beri |
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Gp Capts Maheshwar, Sandeep Mehta and Capt DK Sharma of the Indian Navy |
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Me with G. Parthasarathy and Gen VP Malik |
They got publisher wrong though
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Felicitating the Chief guests |
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Felicitating Bana Singh |
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On stage |
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Introducing the book |
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Friends Ravi and Lakshmi and Brig Chatterjee behind Ravi |
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NDC Commandant VAdm Sunil Lanba and Andamans Lt Governor Gen AK Singh |
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The distinguished audience |
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Gopal Pillai, Air Marshal SG Inamdar and DG Air Ops, Air Marshal SB Deo |
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Friends Gopal and Geeta Karunakaran
KS Bajwa; back row Lt Gen Prakash Katoch and Maj Gen Sheru Thapliyal |
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Maj Gen BK Sharma (green shirt), Maj Gen Ian Cardozo, IDSA's Ajey Lele behind Gens Katoch and Thapliyal |
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Friends Ajay Banerjee, Capt DK Sharma, Maj Gen Subrata Saha, Maj KG Krishna (from left to right) |
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Maj Gen Bobby Mathews (2nd from left) |
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Explaining the making of the book |
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My brother Atul (in tie), Journalists Sandeep Bhushan and Rajeev Ranjan |
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Blommsbury Staff who contributed to the book immensely |
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Our children Harsh and Utkarsh |
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MC Nandita Bhardwaj |
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My better Half Neha (in saree) and sister-in-law Kalyani |
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Gopal narrating his experience on the glacier |
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Reacting to a remark |
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Gen Malik smiling at Bana Singh's remarks |
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Gen Katoch speaking about his command of the Siachen briogade |
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India's only Param Vir Chakra winner on Siachen Bana Singh recounting the 1987 battle |
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Bana Singh: authentic hero |
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Getting ready to unveil the book |
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The book is relaesed |
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Gen VP Malik speaking |
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G. Parthasarthy explaining why Siachen can't be given up |
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Brig VN Channa, his wife beside him, speaking for the first time in public |
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Various guests |
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A naval trio |
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Veteran journalist BG Verghese giving me a word of advice |
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Signing copies |
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My brother Atul, wearing tie, with the Sandip and Perveen Joshi |
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Lt Gen Vijay Narula, DG Artillery (in a tie) with Mayank Singh (r) and Col Rohan Anand, Army PRO |
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Indu Anand of BAE telling me to sign a copy for her fauji father; col Ashwini Channa standing |
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Gen Katoch's best wishes |
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My better half Neha (centre) with Mrs Chatterjee and Kalyani |
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Gen Narula with me and my brother Atul |
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Col Rajesh engrossed in the book |
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Signing copies for our son Harsh's friends |
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Our children Harsh (left), Utkarsh (r) and nephew Aditya with Bana Singh |
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Speaking to journalists |
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Brig Channa speaking with Neha and Mrs Kulkarni, wife of Lt Gen Sanjay Kulkarni who launched Op Meghdoot 30 years ago today |
Enjoyed every moment of the function and meeting old friends. Met you too. Am on the first chapter but will really plough through when on a flight to Bangalore on Tuesday.
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