Leap of the Snow Leopard

June of 2020: A bloody clash happened between the Indian Army and the Chinese PLA in the basin of Galwan River in Eastern Ladakh. The incident, however, was an isolated one. Something similar but without fatalities had happened barely a month earlier and in a neighbouring sector. Why such incidents happened after a long phase of non-violent confrontations along the Line of Actual Control remains a mystery but it is obvious that the initiative was taken by the Chinese. To that extent, there were certain reasons that pushed the Chinese to do what they did. What followed those clashes were a series of manoeuvre and counter-manoeuvre from both sides. Some more lives were lost as the two sides came close to an all-out war in that frozen land. This book, in a narrative, fictionalised form, tells us the story of what happened, where did it happen and how did it happen.