A Crackerjack Life: Stories You’Ll Never Forget

These are memoirs of my life as a fighter pilot a mountain trekker a bon vivant and alove... 1."Rajiv still flies with his keyboard. He wrIt's with a fighter pilot's swagger and attention to detail. Fighter pilots like old hunters have a reputation for tall tales. Rajiv tells short ones with aplomb and gusto. He wrIt's with felicity and a sense of irony and wit so rare these days." -Mohan Guruswamy 2."This is that rare kind of book that'slowly consumes your senses and then suddenly overwhelms you with cinematic swell leaving a smile on your face and joy in your heart." -Sanjiv Bhatt IPS About the Author Rajiv is an alumnus of St. George's College Mussoorie St. Mary's Academy Meerut and the National Defence Academy at Pune India and an erstwhile fighter pilot having served in the Indian Air Force and flown the MiG-21 fighters. He changed course midway and turned into a tech nerd designing computational electronics systems for the Air Force as a civilian. In his free time he trudges aimlessly across mountains with no destination in mind. A bon vivant Rajiv lives with his mother Satya and Seema his wife of 37 years and the reason he is tolerated by friends. You can find him on an evening by the fire or by music with friends guzzling rum sipping a single malt or dancing to a waltz or foxtrot with the few ladies who still indulge him in this passion. Rajiv is a Jazz Western Classical and Hindustani music fan calls himself an anarchic liberal and is an opinion maker on social media. An early riser he can occasionally be seen on the golf course swinging a club wildly or using it to dig up the earth. When he finds his wife receptive to suggestion he resumes a decade long negotiation about buying a 1000cc motorbike having recruited two daughters a son and their spouses to his team but has to obviously work harder on his negotiation skills... This is Rajiv's first book a quirky and whimsical collection of memories from his life in the Air Force as a civilian a mountain trekker and alove...