SHOOT.DIVE.FLY.

         Feel the thrill of Indian Army

                  

About Author: Rachna Bisht Rawat

Rachna Bisht Rawat is a columnist and essayist with vast experience of more than 20 years . The Statesman, Indian Express, Deccan Herald, Outlook, Discover India and Femina are a couple of distributions that she has written for. furthermore, a couple of sites like www.yourstory.com and Iconoculture, a worldwide research and warning organization. She has also worked with papers including Delhi Midday, The Statesman, Financial Express, Indian Express, Deccan Herald and The Hindu, has been atttached with the Leicester Mercury in the United Kingdom, wrote about the London tube impacts, TN Seshan's political race and the result of the Kargil war. She has fabricated five books on the Indian Army, including three for Penguin Random House, one for the Assam Rifles and one describing the historical backdrop of her beloved Lt Col Manoj Rawat's regiment – The Three - a background marked by the world class 3 Engineer Regiment. She has additionally helped in altering the regimental history of The Fifth Airborne, the Indian Army's profoundly enriched Para regiment, to which her late dad Brigadier B.S. Bisht, SM, VSM, and her sibling Col Sameer Bisht, SM, have a place.

 

Books :

§  The Brave  

§  1965

§  Shoot.Dive.Fly

§  The Dreamcatchers 

Awards:

Harry Brittain Fellowship: She was the main Indian to be picked for the Harry Brittain Fellowship, 2005, sorted out by the Commonwealth Press Union.

Worldwide Rolls Royce Award: In 2006, an article on Pooja, an eight-year-old young lady youngster who bolsters her family by performing trapeze artistry in the city of Bangalore, brought Rachna and her Deccan Herald picture taker associate Samson Victor the Commonwealth Press Quarterly's Rolls Royce Award.

District Short Story Competition: Rachna's first short story Munni Mausi was a Highly Commended victor in the 2008-9 Commonwealth Short Story Competition, arranged by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association.

East Asia Regional Media Program 2010: In March 2010, she was one of 30 writers from the East Asia area welcome to participate in a three-day program on the job of news coverage in multi social orders and a globalized world.

Pages:236

Publisher: Penguin Random House

Index: Foreword

                 Introduction

1)   ‘I fly a helicopter to work.’

2)   ‘I shouldn’t have been alive.’

3)   ‘She was struck thirty feet underground in a narrow borewell.’

4)   ‘We aimed for zero collateral damage.’

5)   ‘Jumping out of a plane makes me feel alive!’

6)   ‘My missing figure is my mountaineering trophy.’

7)   ‘We could have died on that expedition-but we didn’t.’

8)   ‘On Everest, mental fortitude counts more than physical strength.’

9)   ‘Everything in my body is broken-except my smile!’

10)                     ‘I hit the ground from 8,500 feet with an unopened parachute.’

11)                     ‘They were hanging between life and death when he dropped down from the sky.’

12)                     ‘I chopped off my leg with my own khukri.’

13)                     ‘When you have nothing to loose ,there is no fear.’

14)                     ‘At twenty-five, you will lead a 100 men ready to die at your command.’

15)                     ‘I play troop games like football; I can shoot from a rifle and I know unarmed combat-every lady officer does.’

16)                     ‘I stood in the snake pit watching the cobra come closer.’

17)                     ‘It’s not a career for women!’

18)                     ‘It’s a no brain job!’

19)                     ‘It grounds your dreams of going abroad.’

20)                     ‘I joined the Army at forty.’

21)                     ‘There ‘s no promotion for disabled soldiers.’

Quotations from the book:

·       I can bet you that no other profession can match what we do for a living.

·       You go to fight for naam, namak and nishaan.

 

My Opinion: The book is about the 21 different brave hearts of our country. The book covers incidents from divergent fields with new obstacles and hardships. Author through her art of writing make the situations live and through her words created goose bumps making it a fine art piece. The book has engulfed huge amount of adventure, thrill, excitement, and heroic moments in it .

                                    The book takes reader to every battlefield where courage, patience, leadership and other qualities are required. The author herself took personal interview of the courageous lion hearts. Our real heroes describe about their life, routine, their journey, their future plans and about their amazing efforts.

                            The story I liked most is of Major Sandesh Kadam , PARA who had hit the ground from 8500feet with an unopened parachute. The vivid, detailed description of the surroundings and his fall truly brings heart to mouth.

                                  The book also provides additional information about army and its other organizations. The book resolves several myths that usually prevail in society and enlighten reader with true facts. I belief it as one of best defence lifestyle must read literature. It will definitely help all the defence aspirants to imbibe some of qualities of these brave hearts and will bring change in their life and the world that they wanted.

                            Hope this article helped you.

                                        -Vikrant Singh Pal

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