Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that CDS commander, General Bipin Rawat, 66th birthday on his birth anniversary today in India.
‘Bipin: The Man behind the Uniform’, by Rachna Bisht Rawat, is the story of the NDA cadet who was relegated in the third term for not being able to do a mandatory jump into the swimming pool; of the young Second Lieutenant who was tricked into losing his ID card at the Amritsar railway station by a 5/11 Gorkha Rifles officer posing as his sahayak; of the Major with a leg in plaster who was carried up to his company post on the Pakistan border because he insisted on joining his men for Dusshera celebrations under direct enemy observation; of the Army Chief who decided India would retaliate immediately and openly to every act of cross-border terrorism; of the Chief of Defence Staff who was happiest dancing the jhamre with his Gorkha troops.
The biography, releasing on his 66th birth anniversary – March 16, is reconstructed from interviews with General Rawat’s closest family members and friends, including his daughters, former chief of army staff General MM Naravane, and wife of Brigadier LS Lidder.
Who was the General Rawat behind the uniform? What was his childhood like? What drove him to achieve a post that made him the country’s foremost military officer? These are some of the questions that the book seeks to answer.
