Lt Col Rajendra Bhaduri (R)

Commissioned in the Indian Army’s Armoured Corps, the author went to become an Army Aviation pilot. He also commanded infantry battalions in insurgency-hit Assam and in Kashmir, in the early 1990s, served in the Siachen Glacier’s Indira Col – India’s northernmost point – to Andaman’s Indira Point – India’s southernmost point. The author is a military history and a general knowledge buff. He can be reached on X and Facebook by clicking on the icons below: