Brig Darshan Khullar was born in Bassi Pathanan, Punjab in 1941 and educated at Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun (formerly The Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College) and was commissioned into the Regiment of Artillery of the Indian Army in December 1961 and joined 22 Mountain Regiment as a young officer and fought the 1962 India China War. A soldier mountaineer, he was the leader of the Indian Everest Expedition in 1984 when the first Indian woman reached the summit. He commanded 168 Field Regiment, 54 Artillery Brigade in Srilanka as part of the IPKF and briefly the corps artillery brigade in Kashmir when the insurgency broke out. He took premature retirement from the Army in 1993. He is the recipient of Padma Shri, Arjuna awards and Ati Vashisht Sewa Medal. He is the author of five books; 'The Call of Everest', 'A Mountain of Happiness', When Generals Failed', 'Security, Peace and Honour' and 'Pakistan our Difficult Neighbour and India's Islamic Dimensions'.
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