Shiv Kunal Verma

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Shiv Kunal Verma is a writer, military historian and a filmmaker based in India. [1] [2] He has shot and produced films on the Indian Armed Forces and the Indian Navy, and made a film on the Kargil War in 1999. He is a graduate of The Doon School and Madras Christian College. [3]

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References

  1. "Shelley Walia reviews 1962: The War That Wasn't". April 23, 2016 via www.thehindu.com.
  2. "Shiv Kunal Verma's '1965: A Western Sunrise': A definitive book on the war : The Tribune India".
  3. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/litfest/delhi-litfest-2016/speakers/shiv-kunal-verma/articleshow/54959202.cms
  4. "Kashmir's problem not an Indo-Pakistan one: Historian Shiv Kunal Verma". The Week.
  5. "Review: Life of an Industani: Six Degrees of Separation by Shiv Kunal Verma". Hindustan Times. February 27, 2023.