It is adventure, honest writing and a progressively evolving view of the world you sense the perceived manliness of being in the military but also the butchery and meaninglessness of war. That or not, the digression to Tintin sat well for Nariman Karkaria’s memoir appealed much the same way – his is the story of a youngster, training to be a priest in Navsari, who in 1910, trades that existence for a shot at seeing the world and fighting in one of its biggest wars. I don’t know if it was triggered by the Tintin-esque cover of the book, which I had placed on the table. For some reason, the day I visited him, a copy of this book in hand, my uncle began talking of Tintin and the near complete collection of Tintin’s adventures, he had helped compile in the family.
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