From Border Line To Byline

Description

FROM BORDERLINE TO BYLINES is a compelling collection of essays drawn from years of service , observation and reflection. Written by an army officer who has stood watch on the nations’s frontiers ,these bylines are born not in studios or seminars, but in forward areas ,forgotten villages, dense forests and restless towns. This is not a memoir of battles fought , but a chronicle of ideas encountered , landscapes lived and truths observed–where uniform gives way to the pen, and duty evolves into dialogue.

About The Author

Born in the year 1963, Colonel SS Lalotra followed his family’s military traditions by donning the olive greens of the Indian army in June 1985. A gunner officer , he has served in the regiment of artillery in myriads terrains and conditions obtaining in the country. An MBA holder from Savitri Bai Phule university, Pune with distinction, he has had a diverse exposure to various organisations related to the country’s security ranging from the SFF ( SPECIAL FRONTIER FORCE) in ‘OP MEGHDOOT’ to quality assurance ( QA) and proof testing of arms and ammunition while on the rolls of country’s premier quality assurance organisation, the DGQA to commanding troops on the line of control in the Gurez valley of J&K. An acclaimed writer ,he has been penning articles for two newspapers of J&K since 2019 as also penned three books to his credit.