In Conversation with Rani Singh, an actor, author, anchor and a Freelance BBC broadcast Journalist about her book, ‘An Officer and His Holiness’, based on the diaries of her late uncle Harmander Singh, who was the Indian officer to receive His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Indian soil in 1959. After her recent audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Rani Singh joins in conversation with TTV to share her experiences and insights from the interviews with His Holiness and her uncle for the purpose of writing the book. In 1959, the Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet into India, where he was granted refuge. Few know about the carefully calibrated operation to escort him safely from the Indian border. An Officer and His Holiness narrates how political officer Har Mander Singh successfully managed this assignment in the North East Frontier Agency (NEFA) with limited resources, and despite a treacherous terrain and external threats. Har Mander Singh kept careful diary entries of the period, which have been reproduced for the first time in this book. His niece and renowned journalist, Rani Singh, painstakingly documents the journey through extensive research, travel and interviews with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, his youngest brother, Tenzin Choegyal, and Har Mander Singh.