India, Oct. 8 -- As the Indian Air Force marks its 94th anniversary, few careers offer as unusual a vantage point on the force as that of Group Captain (retd) Tarun Kumar Singha. Commissioned into the IAF in 1985, Singha served as a fighter pilot before moving to helicopters and later into public relations. He was the Ministry of Defence's spokesperson during the Kargil War and subsequently served as a PRO in Shillong, Ahmedabad, Delhi and Kolkata, before retiring as the PRO of Eastern Air Command, Shillong, in 2018.

Since retirement, Singha has taken his experience of the armed forces into filmmaking. He was the lead consultant on Operation Safed Sagar, the series on the Indian Air Force's role in the Kargil War. From the unprecedented ...