In the course of serving for 26 years in the Indian Army, covering the length and breadth of the nation starting the 19th year of my life (I had left Engineering to join NDA), I hadn't realized that my idea of India could be so very different from the real India. Though not oblivious to the socio-political conditions in the country, yet, I was far removed from reality and in retrospect I lived in a different India, in cantonments or on mountain tops or in jungles and therefore, had a perception of a different India. When finally I took retirement and settled down in a civilian area, I...