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On the morning of 8 December 2021 Indias Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat and his wife Madhulika said goodbye to their daughter Tarini and dogs and left their Delhi home to board a flight for Sulur in Tamil Nadu Around 1148 am they boarded an Mi17 V5 helicopter that took off from Sulur to Wellington where Gen Rawat was to deliver a lecture at the Defence Services Staff College Just a few minutes away from its destination the chopper crashed and all fourteen passengers onboard eventually perished It was a sudden and shocking end to the life of a man who had risen like a meteor in the defence forcesBipin The Man behind the Uniform is the story of the NDA cadet who was relegated in the third term for not being able to do a mandatory jump into the swimming pool of the young Second Lieutenant who was tricked into losing his ID card at the Amritsar railway station by a 5/11 Gorkha Rifles officer posing as his sahayak of the Major with a leg in plaster who was carried up to his company post on the Pakistan border because he insisted on joining his men for Dusshera celebrations under direct enemy observation of the Army Chief who decided India would retaliate immediately and openly to every act of crossborder terrorism of the Chief of Defence Staff who was happiest dancing the jhamre with his Gorkha troopsWritten by bestselling author Rachna Bisht Rawat and featuring indepth interviews with Bipin Rawats friends family members and comrades this book is a befitting tribute to one of Indias greatest and most controversial Generals