varied interests include adventure sports, military history and journalism. A regular contributor to magazines and journals, many of his short stories and poems were published in the Illustrated Weekly, Filmfare, Femina and Eve’s Weekly in the seventies and eighties. In later years, he took to professional writing and has authored seven books. His previous books are Through – Saga of the Corps of Signals (2001); Leadership in the Indian Army – Biographies of Twelve Soldiers, (2005); History of the Corps of Signals, Volume II , (2006); India’s External Intelligence – Secrets of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) in 2007; Contribution of the Armed Forces to the Freedom Movement in India (2009); History of the Corps of Signals, Volume III (2014); and Signals in the 1962 War (2022). His eighth book, Protocol and Etiquette in India, is presently under print.