Nowhere Man

Capt. Kamal Bakshi fought in the 1971 Indo-Pak War and went missing after the Battle of Chhamb--the bloodiest battle of 1971. Although no one from his battalion had seen him get killed no one had been able to locate his body. And so the military declared him 'Missing Believed Killed'--the ambiguous status assigned to soldiers when their death cannot be confirmed.However six years after the war the Indian government changed its mind. The Ministry of External Affairs announced in Parliament that Indian intelligence agencies have reason to believe that Pakistan had not been truthful when it handed over the list of Indian POWs in its custody. It went on to state the names of at least forty Indian soldiers still believed to be in Pakistani custody and one of the names was Kamal Bakshi's.This book has been written by his nephew Shivalik Bakshi. It is his story recreated from his letters diaries recollections of those who crossed paths with him and published accounts of the Battle of Chhamb.