Former Chief of Military Workers Normal Manoj Mukund Naravane. File
| Photograph Credit score: The Hindu
Amidst a rising parliamentary storm over his guide, 4 Stars of Future, former Military Chief Gen. M. M. Naravane on Tuesday (February 10, 2026) confirmed his writer’s rivalry that the memoir has not been formally printed.
Penguin Random Home India mentioned it holds the only publishing rights to 4 Stars of Future and asserted that the guide has not gone into publication. “No copies of the guide, both in print or digital kind, have been printed, distributed, bought, or in any other case made obtainable to the general public by Penguin Random Home India,” the writer mentioned.
Sharing the assertion by PRHI on social media, Gen. Naravane mentioned, “That is the standing of the guide”. The statements got here after the Delhi Police registered an FIR over the alleged unlawful circulation of the unpublished manuscript in digital and different codecs.
Contradicts Rahul
Gen. Naravane’s clarification follows remarks by Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, who earlier within the day cited a December 2023 social media put up by Normal Naravane stating that the guide was “obtainable now”, to counter the writer’s declare that the memoir has not but been printed.
The guide quoted by Mr. Gandhi consists of parts of Gen. Naravane’s accounts of the 2020 Galwan conflict and the navy standoff alongside the LAC with China, in addition to the federal government’s Agniveer scheme, which point out variations over authorities coverage. Particularly, the opposition has attacked the federal government over the account of a standoff with the PLA in August 2020, when Gen Naravane allegedly awaited directions from the federal government, however didn’t obtain any clear-cut orders.
After Mr. Gandhi’s remarks, PRHI mentioned an announcement a couple of guide or its availability for pre-order shouldn’t be interpreted as a publication.
Copyright infringement
Neither PRHI nor Gen. Naravane defined how the guide, which has not up to now obtained clearance from the Ministry of Defence, reached Mr. Gandhi, nor whether or not the hardcopy had been printed however not distributed.
In its assertion, the writer warned that any copies of the guide at the moment in circulation, in entire or partially, whether or not in print, digital, PDF, or every other format, on-line or offline, represent a copyright infringement. It added that it might pursue cures obtainable beneath the regulation towards any unlawful or unauthorised dissemination of the manuscript. The assertion, PRHI mentioned, was being issued to put its place on file.
The controversy escalated final week after Rahul Gandhi was seen holding what he described as a duplicate of the guide throughout the Parliament complicated, triggering political and authorized scrutiny over the standing and circulation of the memoir.
Printed – February 10, 2026 10:18 pm IST
