India, Oct. 24 -- On November 12, 2023, a tunnel that was under construction at Silkyara in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi district collapsed, trapping 41 labourers. For 17 days, the anxious men survived in the darkness with one hope - that they would see their families once again. Like all survival stories in which people come face to face with death, this too is an extraordinary one of grit and tenacity with the workers finally emerging out into the world on November 28.

The Ramnath Goenka Award-winning journalist Sourabh Sharma vividly recounts the story of one of the longest rescue operations in India in his first book, Operation Silkyara. Full of interesting details, readers are taken into the world of each character: of Colonel Deepak Pa...