Later that year in 1983, Kumar published an account of his journeys in the newsmagazine Illustrated Weekly of India. The first public acknowledgment of the manoeuvres and the developing conflict situation in the Siachen was an abbreviated article titled High Politics in the Karakoram by Joydeep Sircar in The Telegraph newspaper of Calcutta in 1982. The full text was re-printed as Oropolitics in the Alpine Journal, London, in 1984.