Colonel Bhaskar Sarkar, VSM (Retd), a civil engineering graduate from Kolkata
University joined the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun in April 1963 and was
commissioned into the Corps of Engineers. After attending the Defence Services Staff
College Course, Wellington, he served as Brigade Major of a Mountain Brigade in
Nagaland, and went on to command an Engineer Regiment. He has qualified on a
management course at College of Defence Management in Secunderabad and served as an
instructor in College of Military Engineering, Pune. He has been decorated twice for
distinguished service – with a Vishisht Seva Medal as commanding officer and with a
COAS Commendation Card while on staff in HQ Eastern Command. He has also been a
Chief Engineer of a Border Roads Project. After 28 years of distinguished service, Colonel
Sarkar hung up his uniform and joined the construction industry as a civil engineer and
management consultant. A versatile writer, he has over a hundred articles published in
Journals, has fifteen published books in print and another 12 “e” books.
