About the Book: Head Held High
Whenever decorated officer Vishwas Nangre Patil recalls the memories of Diwali
from his childhood days, the sounds of firecrackers often transform into the
deafening grenade blasts from the night of 26/11. It was his grit, cultivated
over the years from the neck-breaking labour of studying for the UPSC exams,
that had enabled him to power on and gun down the terrorists inside the Taj
Mahal Palace hotel during the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Head Held High, translated
from the Marathi book Mann Mein Hai Vishwas, is an account of IPS officer
Vishwas Nangre Patils life-from his humble background, through school, college,
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