A Life of Passion: Story of a Sapper

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The book is published following certain articles and incidents which the author had penned down, from time to time and sent to the College of Military Engineering Pune and Bengal Sappers. The author’s family members suggested that in view of the very versatile and varied experience in service spanning 40 years, it would be appropriate for the author to write a short book containing snippets not only of the days the author spent in army service but also the period prior to and after his service. An attempt has therefore been made to highlight the Sapper’s story from the early days prior to service to the period after retirement based purely on memory and the narrations within quotes may not be wholly accurate word for word but the gist is.

The most remarkable feature of this book is that the author has written the entire text for memory, narrating incidents and events traversing countries, languages, cultures, generations and milestones in his life with poignancy and humour covering a period of seventy years. Though all these years the author did not maintain a dairy recording the events narrated in this book.

The autobiography is very fascinating and readable with emphadia on the exposure the author had both in India and overseas during his service.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lt Gen T B Nanda

There are very few, if any, officers of the Indian Army, who have had such a versatile career profile during their service. Lt Gen T B Nanda started his zest for travel and adventure as a youngster when he hiked towards Gilgit in an area close to the second highest mountain K2, now in POK.During service, his travels stretched in the East from longitude 119 E from BORNEO now called Kalimantan as part of Indonesia and Northern Malaysia in the region of Mount Kinabalu 12600 FSL and on the western side, his visit to Iceland which got aborted from Scotland owing to the change of course of the Colombian trawler which was to take him to REJIVIK in Iceland. His other trips stretched from Canada in the West to China in the East and from Russia to the Caribbean islands besides Srilanka. He drove extensively in his car in Europe covering 5000 miles from Norway in the North to Austria, France and Italy in the South.Within India, he has visited Ladakh in the North to Kanyakumari in the South and from Walong (NEFA) in the East to the Western coast of India.The story of the Sapper has some action oriented and fascinating episodes which highlight the experiences and passion for life.