About the Book : Drass ka Tiger
In May 1999, the Kargil insurgency was still being viewed as a routine affair.
No one quite understood the magnitude of the situation. However, it soon emerged
that infiltrators had captured high-altitude posts vacated by Indian soldiers
during the winter months and thus had a tactical upper hand, while the Indian
Army struggled with intelligence.
For the next month or so, Capt. Anuj Nayyar and the men of 17 Jat went on
various reconnaissance missions in the boulder-strewn Drass sector where enemy
troops had set up base. They fought relentlessly in a gruesome battle for two
nights in July, before