His professional life started with Tiger Tops, a leading Himalayan adventure tourism group, in Ladakh reconnoitering trekking routes in the early 1980s. After journalistic stints with India Today and Associated Press, he shot and directed Project Tiger television series for Sanctuary Films in the mid 1980s. Under the banner of KaleidoIndia, he went on to shoot and direct numerous films, which involved working extensively with the Air Force, Navy, and the Army. He has clocked many hours on frontline fighter aircraft and also filmed the Kargil War in 1999. His other films include the highly acclaimed Salt of the Earth and Aakash Yodha on IAF, The Naval Dimension and Green Flash: India’s Fighting Man; The Standard Bearers on National Defence Academy, The Making of a Warrior on Indian Military Academy, and Wings of the Future on light combat aircraft. All these documentaries were considered by critics to have set the benchmark and most of the films were repeatedly telecast on Discovery Channel as well.
The author of several books including Ocean to Sky: India from the Air; The Long Road to Siachen; The Northeast Trilogy; The Assam Rifles; 1962: The War That Wasn’t and 1965: A Western Sunrise, he has multiple interests which include developing an Enhanced Education programme that includes Military History for educational institutions. His latest book Six Degrees of Separation: The Life of an Industani is being followed by the two-volume Yodha series that documents warfare in the subcontinent from the days of the Ramayana to the Kargil War in 1999.