This is a ring-side view of India's changing times in the first five decades after Independence, though the eyes of a military man. Ian da Costa's story begins in Nagpur of the 1940s. In that Central Indian city, a community of Goans worked hard and smart to build their future. Those were times of ferment and tumultuous change. We encounter the military transitioning from a colonial British-run institution to one serving Independent India. From life in the Indian ...
