Written records tend to glorify the actions of battalions as well as individuals, Singh says, magnifying achievements while suppressing the mistakes and glossing over failures.

Major General V.K. Singh graduated from the National Defence Academy, Kharakvasla in May 1964. He passed out from the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, in June 1965 and was commissioned into the Corps of Signals. In his career spanning thirty-seven years in the Indian Army.