Abstract
The Line of Control: Travelling with the Indian and Pakistani Armies is a travelogue by Happymon Jacob, an academic from India. The author is an associate professor of disarmament studies at JNU, New Delhi. He also publishes a column in daily newspaper The Hindu, hosts a weekly TV show and has been a prominent participant in Track-II dialogues between India and Pakistan. He has written several books on foreign policy, defense studies and Kashmir.
The book under review is divided into seven chapters; each chapter encompasses the experiences the author had, on both sides of the LOC and India and Pakistan. Happymon presents an insightful and distressing account of the lives of the common people living on both sides of the LoC, and the soldiers who are guarding one of the most perilous and crisis prone boundaries of the world.