Bharat Rakshak

This is the most important information. Indian leadership and elite could not figure out that this could not have happened without the (secret)support of the western powers.

http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/oct/05war.htm
The 1965 War: A view from the east

From link above

Some interesting excerpt from the link

I am working on a book among other things. I would love to hear if there are Indian printing/publishing outfits that are in the printing outsourcing biz. The major printing outfits in the USA would not take small amount of print requests unless you pay them killer amounts of money. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Avram Sprinzl

Absolutely. Please contact Captain (Rtd) Bharat of Lancer Publishers & Distributors, New Delhi (a benifactor of Bharat-Rakshak). He has been offering it for quite some time, in fact some Lancer books are very small run.

Contact info at : http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/BOOKS/Lancer.html

Avram

Lancer that Arun recomends is a publisher, who will do an A2Z job (Editing, Typesetting, Printing, Distribution etc)

If you already have the Typesetted document ready (excuse the english), a very good source is www.pragati.com - these chaps are basedin Hyderabad and have a good outsourcing model already in place. If you can email the finished PDF they willprint not only to your specifications but also courier it to your country. You need to give them the specs to get a quote though.

Note that they are not publishers but merely 'printing outsourcing company'. But Pragati is regarded as one of the best , if not the best printing set ups in this country.

Regards

Jagan

Avram

Lancer that Arun recomends is a publisher, who will do an A2Z job (Editing, Typesetting, Printing, Distribution etc)

If you already have the Typesetted document ready (excuse the english), a very good source is www.pragati.com - these chaps are basedin Hyderabad and have a good outsourcing model already in place. If you can email the finished PDF they willprint not only to your specifications but also courier it to your country. You need to give them the specs to get a quote though.

Note that they are not publishers but merely 'printing outsourcing company'. But Pragati is regarded as one of the best , if not the best printing set ups in this country.

Regards

Jagan

Never knew that the best pilot, hero etc etc etc of the PAF, MM Alam was an SDRE type.

This nugget is worth mentioning in the 30 sec over Saragodha article.

Hey Avram,
I am personally in the printing outsourcing business. I have just started up, We are working with Asia's biggest printing company close to my home place. I would be glad to help you out or publish the book if you like.

You can contact me at: gtsglobal "at" gmail "dot" com

Regards

Air Commodore Jasjit Singh (retd)
1965 war: The wrong lessons

http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/oct/10war1.htm

Thank you all so much gentlemen. I will also be forwarding the above information to some of my other contacts. Thank you again.
AS

Air Commodore (retd) Jasjit Singh

1965 war: A reality check

http://www.rediff.com/news/2005/oct/17war.htm

Interesting piece by Jasjit Singh - a little spice for the "why didn't the PA carry on to Akhnur" question.

Probably because the PA campaign was actually being controlled by unkil. They did not want a full fedged war but only a scare to the Indian leadership after Nehru's death in 1964. They considered Indian leadership to be weak after Nehru's time and they wanted a Kashmir solution by forcing it in their favor.

A cross-post of one of Jagan's posts in another thread: (the latest issue of Vayu Aerospace Review carries the following articles on the 1965 war):

Tank Busting : An article on the initial days of ops by Air Marshal Trilochan Singh.

Pathankot Strike : first person account of the raid by Air Commodore Sajjad Haider of PAF

Nur Khan : The PAF CAS' recent revelation that the 65 War was entirely Pakistans fault

Chalees Saal Baad : A review of the India-Pakistan Air War of 1965 by Jagan Pillarisetti and Samir Chopra

http://us.rediff.com/news/2005/oct/26sp ... &file=.htm

The Rediff Special/PVS Jaganmohan and Samir Chopra

On a wing and a prayer

October 26, 2005

The Indian Air Force played a key role in the 1965 conflict. As part of our special series to mark the 40th year since that war, we bring you two excerpts from a seminal book on the subject, The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965, by PVS Jagan Mohan and Samir Chopra.

sameer and jagan - loved the story, however says that bishnoi climbed to 300' and then began a dive. either he was seriously cool or there is a zero missing? AFAIK at 300' at those speeds a dive will not last very long... please illuminate

Daulat,

You are right, printer's devil strikes again. The figure should actually be 1500 feet - don't ask how it became 300. But I think there was some confusion between two different sources for this story and hence this error.

Thanks very much,
Samir

http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/oct/26war.htm

The Rediff Special/Samir Chopra and PVS Jagan Mohan
The Wolfpack in action
October 26, 2005

In this second extract from The India Pakistan Air War of 1965, we look at how four Gnats got into a dogfight with the superior Pakistani Sabres, and won.