Shades of Blue

Air Vice Marshal Suryakant Chafekar's memoir will keep the reader enthralled. This is a story of an upright, spirited and self-respecting individual who had the grit to take on a well-entrenched and callous system that unrelentingly tested his integrity, his faith in truth and his indefatigable spirit. Chafekar's passion for justice is such that he fights the seemingly insurmountable odds with rarest conviction. He has steel in him. While facing an enquiry for a flying incident, he, rather than breaking down, fearlessly decides to follow the path of justice with tremendous moral conviction. It is a rare read, at once uplifting and thought provoking. One does not come across such honest narratives too often. The book is unputdownable. Mahesh Elkunchwar