The Man who bombed Karachi tells ’71 story

Over 30 years after Karachi was bombed on December 4, 1971, the man who had set up the mission is telling it like it was. Former chief of Naval Staff, Adm S.M. Nanda took up the pen to tell the Navy’s take of the 1971 war with Pakistan in his memoir The Man who Bombed Karachi. ‘‘Three years ago my friends and family convinced me to write this,’’ Nanda said before the book’s release this evening.

The book is the story of a fledgling Navy, emerging from the shadow of its former British rulers and officers and seeking a worthy role in post-Independent India.