[nukkad] N-war book set to become a movie

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Dear Nukkies
            Anyone read this book? If yes how does it end? 

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Bye,



Netgeek aka Cherian
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N-war book set to become a movie

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_32715,0008.htm

Journalist Humphrey Hawksley's chilling fictional account of nuclear war involving
India, Pakistan and China, Dragonfire, is all set to become a motion picture.

Bobby Bedi, the man who produced Bandit Queen, has bought the movie rights of the
best-selling novel. The project is in the scripting stage, and the cameras are
likely to roll in a year, Bedi told the Hindustan Times.

"The film will be in English, with a Hindi version as well," Bedi said. The
big-budget movie will target an international audience and have Indian actors
playing the role of Indian characters, the producer said.

Dragonfire opens with India paradropping Tibetan commandos at Lhasa's Drapchi prison
to organise an escape by Tibetan leaders. At the end of a chain of rapidly unfolding
events comes a Chinese nuclear assault on India, along with a Pakistani tactical
N-strike.

In India to do a series for the BBC, Hawksley on Tuesday maintained that the nuclear
war threat brought out by him still holds, despite the slight lowering of tensions
between India and Pakistan. And Beijing continued to see New Delhi as a major Asian
rival.

According to the author, by undertaking Pokhran II, India had "foreclosed the option
of threatening even a conventional war (against Pakistan)". The philosophy of
mutually assured destruction (MAD), underscored by Pakistan's tit for tat Chagai
Hills tests, was "nothing but a replica of the Cold War".

Hawksley recalled the straying into PoK airspace of an Indian aircraft piloted by
Air Marshal V.K. Bhatia, then the commander-in-chief of the Western Air Command.
"Had Bhatia been shot down, it could have pushed India into a corner, bringing about
the kind of flashpoints described in my book."

But he was neither a warmonger nor a prophet of doom, Hawksley said. "I am just a
fiction writer". He believes the nuclearisation of South Asia has had at least one
advantage. It has "lanced the Kashmir boil", putting the issue under global glare,
perhaps setting the stage for a resolution.

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