Miscellaneous
Operation Vijay - the operation to evict Pakistani infiltrators from the commanding heights in Drass, Kargil, Leh and Mushkoh valley was successfully concluded on 26 July 1999. Som and Uday, in this episode, discuss the events leading up to Kargil, but from a Pakistani point of view. India debunked some Pakistani assumptions emphatically - while falling prey to a 20 year old template in late 2001. The global media lapped up images from the India side and this was the genesis of the American and Israeli shift towards India - decisively. All these facets go beyond the individual stories which the media chooses to focus on; but these are the broad contours which are at play in times of War and Peace. Uday's story on the gensis of Kargil and Bofors can be found here - http://bit.ly/TNIXXX and http://bit.ly/TNIXV"