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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is Manan Bhatt. A new book revisits the chain of real-life events surrounding the February 2019 Pulwama suicide bombing attack, and India’s strong hit-back in the form of Balakot airstrikes twelve days later.

Detailed explanation-2: -Author Manan Bhatt takes you through every single detail of the two epochal events in recent Indian history-the Pulwama terror attack and the subsequent Balakot Air-Strike-in this gripping, riveting, yet sensitively told account.

Detailed explanation-3: -Published by HarperCollins, ‘As Far as the Saffron Fields: The Pulwama Conspiracy’, by Danesh Rana will be released on 11 March on ThePrint’s SoftCover.

Detailed explanation-4: -The blast which killed 40 personnel was claimed by Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), a banned terror outfit from Pakistan. In response to the attack, on February 26, the Indian Air Force (IAF) struck a JeM terrorist camp at Balakot, located in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.