In our  great land India, the civilian population do not know much about the Indian  Armed forces at all.  Most of the school students and college going youngsters,  have no idea of the various ranks of officers in the Army, Navy and Air force., much less about their ways and rigours of life.

In the fiction, HIS  PRINCESS  ROYAL , the hero is an Army officer. The book gives in vivid details the problems a married officer goes through, about the discipline and work culture in the Force, the social life the officer community leads and the joy of serving in a Regiment.  It will make an enjoyable reading because it brings out the Indian thinking, particularly that of an officer’s wife,  the wives’ philosophy of life and so on.  Even the Army officers both serving and retired would relish the book because it would be highly nostalgic and bring to your memory your own Army days.

You would also read about a prosperous and  gigantic agricultural village named Ponnur which supplies paddy and rice not only to different parts of India but also to South East Asian  countries, particularly for Japan. The village depends on a perennial lake named Kally. This is an extraordinary lake with powerful springs in its bed. No kind of pumping is necessary to feed the paddy fields.  So long as there is an outlet of some kind, water flows automatically to the fields  even for distances up to 8- 10 kilometers. The lake never goes dry.

Indians abroad would see on your mental eyes glimpses of  life of men and officers of the Indian Army , especially if you had left India long back.

The book  is  available in all the leading book shops in Chennai, Pune, Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata.

Consisting of 380 odd pages, it has been  published by “ANa books, Chennai – 40” and is moderately priced at Rs 160.

Israel Jayakaran, Author

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