Travels and travails on the LoC

This book is, ultimately, a useful and interesting read for students of India-Pakistan relations

The Line of Control
Travelling With the Indian and Pakistani Armies
Happymon Jacob
Penguin Random House
201 pages; Rs 499
 
Happymon Jacob’s new book, The Line of Control: Travelling With the Indian and Pakistani Armies, is less about the line of control (LoC) than about travelling with the Indian and Pakistani armies. Presumably, the author meant this to be no more than a quick, racy travelogue for the lay reader; rather than a serious work on the peculiar environment and dynamics that prevail along the 776 kilometre-long LoC — reputedly the world’s most heavily militarised border between that part