New Army chief Gen Dwivedi gets set to take on Himalayan challenges

On a hot March desert morning, somewhere near the Pokhran desert in Rajasthan, the then Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi looked up towards the clear blue sky even as his right hand pointed upwards palm inside. This was in response to a congratulatory greeting on his expected promotion to be the country's 30th Chief of Army Staff (COAS). While Gen Dwivedi did not say anything, his gesture indicated his belief in the ways of the Almighty. He would have taken it in the same spirit when in a rare development, six days before he was to retire, the services of the…