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BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS |
Holy Sinners Search of Kashmir Author: Major Saras Tripathi |
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ISBN: 9788170494959 By Major Saras Tripathi Publisher: Manas Publications Date: 2014 Pages: 375 Binding: HB |
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About the Book |
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The insurgency in Kashmir, conceived in eighties and bursting and hurting the entire nation, was mostly sponsored from the across; to inflict `thousand cuts on the Indian state to bleed it to death.’ To achieve the nefarious goal, Pakistan recruited, imported, trained and pushed Kashmiri youth into armed struggle to carry out killings with the aim to make them religious-fanatic terrorists completely blinded into Islamic fundamentalism. These terrorists/ militants/ anti-national elements are looked upon as `Holy’ by the separatist/Islamic fundamentalists. They consider themselves `Mujahids’ the holy warriors. Whereas, the people of Kashmir as well as rest of India consider them as enemies of the nation, the traitors, the worst sinners. On the other hand, Indian Army deployed in Kashmir to curb their anti-people/ anti-national activities, is looked upon by the people of Kashmir as well as rest of the country, as saviours of national integrity the holiest act. Whereas, the separatists see the army as perpetrators and the worst sinners. The natural calamity of September 2014 due to heavy flood in Jammu and Kashmir that substantially destroyed/ paralysed the life in the state, have shown the pious and humane role of the Indian armed forces and other para-military forces which saved the lives of lakhs of people of the state from jaws of death. Since the author has served in the Kashmir valley for about five years, he has gone through the conflicts of emotions, where his empathy was with average Kashmiri sufferings but his duties were with the Army. The eyewitness incidents narrated in the book highlight the sufferings and loss of both sides the civilian population as well as soldiers and their families. |
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About the Author |
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Saras Tripathi was born on 05 May 1966 at Allahabad to Sri Raj Nath Tripathi and Smt Manraji Tripathi. He graduated from University of Allahabad in English Literature and Philosophy, followed by MA (Philosophy) in the year 1989. He has been a vivid reader from his childhood. He was commissioned into 6 Maratha Light Infantry regiment of Indian Army on 07 Mar 1992. After completion of training at Officers’ Training Academy Madras (now Chennai), he was posted in Kashmir valley where his Unit was already operating under the Armed Forces Special Power Act to crush Pak sponsored armed uprising. The author served for five years in the valley in two different stints; from 1992-1995 and from 1997-1999. After serving almost eight years he voluntarily resigned from the Army in 1999; post Kargil war. A trained bilingual broadcaster at AIR, the author has to his credit MBA (HR) from Pondicherry University and Master’s in Journalism from Sagar University. The author can be reached via Facebook and Twitter respectively at https://www.facebook.com/saras.tripathi and https://twitter.com/SarasTripathi or through his website www.sarastripathi.in. The author resides in the National Capital Region with his parents, wife and two children. |
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