Bipin

On the morning of 8 December 2021 India's Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika said goodbye to their daughter Tarini and dogs and left their Delhi home to board a flight for Sulur in Tamil Nadu. Around 11.48 a.m. they boarded an Mi-17 V5 helicopter that took off from Sulur to Wellington where Gen. Rawat was to deliver a lecture at the Defence Services Staff College. Just a few minutes away from its destination the chopper crashed and all fourteen passengers onboard eventually perished. It was a sudden and shocking end to the life of a man who had risen like a meteor in the defence forces.. Bipin: The Man behind the Uniform 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.. Written by bestselling author Rachna Bisht Rawat and featuring in-depth interviews with Bipin Rawat's friends family members and comrades this book is a befitting tribute to one of India's greatest and most controversial Generals.