05
Jan
The operation against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in Sri Lanka in the 1980s may have been a doomed venture, but this riveting tale of rivalry between an Indian Special Forces officer and a battle-hardened LTTE commander based on realistic settings comes as a breath of fresh air in a market where war books are few and far between. Abhay Narayan Sapru's "The Beckoning Isle" is a gripping account of the IPKF's operation versus the LTTE guerrillas and is his second book on war from a combat soldier's perspective. Sapru, who…