V eteran journalist Harinder Baweja’s absorbing book chronicles a four-decade-long journey reporting from various conflict situations. Some of her revelations are relevant even today for understanding insurgencies affecting India. Baweja rushed to the epicenter whenever militancy broke out in India and its neighbourhood. Her in-depth coverage of Punjab in the crisis ridden 1980s, Kashmir, POK, Afghanistan Pakistan, Azad Kashmir and Kargil are testimony to her unflinching courage and steely determination to get the story, no matter the odds.

The author even managed to make it to the Lashkar -e – Taiba headquarters in Muridke by convincing then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ’s minister Mushahid Hussain that it was in Pakistan’s interests to show that it had nothing to hide, even though the

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