FORGED IN FIRE - The Story Of A Female Commando

Salil Joglekar takes the reader on a turbulent ride, catapulting us from serene domestication to the strife torn landscape of an insidious war. The conflict of being an empowered woman in a patriarchal world, being a Moslem in the armed forces in India and the inner workings of the Indian armed forces is described as much in explicit terms as it is in gentle implication.The reader is swept up in the life of Khala when she was just Saira as we follow the twist and turns in her story. We move with both trepidation and with satisfaction towards the inevitable end, the writer's liquid, visual, flowing narrative style making an enjoyable companion along the way.A book to enjoy, make you think, make you feel and make you do it all over again.

A good read