1965: Courage Unleashed – Short Stories on the Indo-Pak War
Author: Ian Cardozo
Publisher:Penguin
Pages: 234 + xLix
Price: Rs 350
It is not commonly known that when the 1965 Indo-Pak war broke out, one particular combat had spectators: The students and professors of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur.
It was mid-morning and a class was on when sounds of explosions disrupted an otherwise ordinary day, sending students and their teachers rushing out. What they witnessed that day was one of the greatest air battles in the subcontinent. Indian and Pakistani fighter planes — the Sabres and the Hunters